Bill Gates's recent declared that he has changed his mind and no longer views climate change as a serious threat to the future of humanity is not just a major blow to the "climate crisis" camp but likely signals the beginning-of-the-end of the great climate scare.

Gates wasn't the first to suffer a massive rethink on climate. Recently The Sierra Club, so long a champion of the we're-all-gunna-die crowd, has changed its mind and has declared it will start emphasising "social justice" rather than the environment. 350.org, previously active in opposing CO2 emissions, has closed due to insufficient funding.

The recent COP30 gabfest was a disaster for the CO2 fetishists. No leader of any major economic power bothered to attend. And precisely nothing was. Europeans were asking why Europe was destroying its economy when it only produces 6% of the emissions.

Why the sudden Road to Damascus enlightenment? Two words..."Artificial Intelligence".

AI is a massive user of electricity That's why companies like Google and Microsoft are partnering with uranium companies to power their AI farms. It’s calculated that the USA will need to build 100 1 gigawatt power stations per year. Renewables can't do it.

Any country that has ambitions of being part of the AI revolution has no choice but to massively increase their electricity production of reliable 24 hr output. AI can’t just be run when the sun’s out.

It’s always been clear that the renewables push involved a massive transfer of wealth to the investor classes via the subsidies that they convinced governments to pay. But now there’s a different vehicle for their money and they are abandoning renewables and going all in on AI farms and the electricity infrastructure they require.

Gates realised that his push for renewables was incompatible with Microsoft’s desire to be a leader in AI. Nothing more noble than that.

Our government tells us we need to join the renewables mania to remain competitive. But being competitive means joining the biggest thing since the industrial revolution. Hopefully our leaders will wake up to that before the world passes us by.

Apparently small modular reactors are better suited to the needs of mining and mineral processing than AI. Gate's sodium cooled reactor has molten salt storage to better allow a variable power output. Amazon is partnering with X-energy's pebble bed smr. Copenhagen atomics is using molten salt with a thorium blanket to breed fuel, although the process takes twenty years to double the fuel. There is one company in Texas using wind energy for a data centre, but I don't think this sort of example common.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/21/south-texas-data-center-renewable-energy/

I wish these companies every success and am grateful for the support Trump is giving to the nuclear industry. Successful smrs will bring about the demise of wind and solar grifters. Although the koalas might not be threatened, it is still horrible that they are losing their lives because of those horrible grifting con artists.