I technically agree, but modularity also works on large reactors. And they are generally cheaper to build and operate per energy produced than smaller reactors.

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jl6 3 days ago | parent [-]

Modularity could work on mainframes too but it mostly didn’t. Mainframe cost per transaction can be very low, and yet here we are. Tech at scale always passes through a cheap/worse is better phase.

	▲	preisschild 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Take a look at the open compute project for example. Instead of having power supplies in each server, they have a lesser amount of large ones for example. Economies of scale wins in big compute projects too
	▲	thrance 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Which is why comparing mainframes and nuclear reactors is a bad analogy. A better one would be datacenters vs individual PCs. If the goal is efficiency, datacenters win everytime.