Here's a question for your weekend: Did anyone ask if UK small businesses wanted to fund Microsoft's nuclear reactor restart?

Because that's what's happening. While Microsoft spends $1.6 billion restarting Three Mile Island, Google partners with Kairos Power for small modular reactors, and Amazon secures nuclear capacity across multiple projects, your cloud bills are climbing to pay for it.

Nobody took a vote. Nobody asked permission. Tech giants made a collective decision that AI is worth unlimited energy consumption, and UK SMBs are involuntary investors in that bet. Let's talk about that.

Twenty-three employees. Eighteen months. Forty-seven thousand pounds wasted on cloud infrastructure they didn't need, SaaS subscriptions nobody used, and auto-scaling rules designed by a consultant who'd never checked back. This isn't a horror story about a massive enterprise with unlimited budget.

This is CloudBridge Digital, a Nottingham digital agency that discovered they'd been hemorrhaging cash while Microsoft, AWS, and a parade of SaaS vendors quietly helped themselves to the company bank account.

Here's what went wrong, how they discovered it, and the six-month recovery plan that clawed back £32,000 of annual waste.

Microsoft's restarting Three Mile Island. Google's building small modular reactors. Amazon's buying nuclear capacity. And you're getting the bill. While tech giants scramble for gigawatts to power their AI fantasies, your cloud costs are climbing faster than a hyperactive squirrel on espresso.

AWS up 15%, Azure up 12%, SaaS tools adding "AI features" you didn't ask for at 20% premium. But here's what nobody's telling you: you don't need to accept this as inevitable. Seven specific actions you can take today to stop funding Silicon Valley's nuclear renaissance with your operating budget.

They're growing brain tissue in Swiss laboratories and using it to process information. Not simulations. Actual living human neurons, derived from skin cells, housed in specialized chambers, connected to electrodes, computing.

FinalSpark's Neuroplatform has 16 brain organoids containing roughly 160,000 neurons total. Each organoid interfaces with 8 electrodes sampling at 30 kHz. The system has operated continuously for four years, testing over 1,000 organoids, collecting 18 terabytes of data.

The peer-reviewed research is published. Nine universities have free access. You can watch neurons computing in real-time on their website.

This is happening right now. Not science fiction. Science fact.

There's a lab in Switzerland where they're building computers out of living human neurons. Sounds completely barking mad, right?

Here's the thing: these brain cells compute using one million times less energy than silicon. Meanwhile, training a single AI model now produces the carbon emissions of 500 cars over their entire lifetimes. Microsoft, Google, and Amazon just committed billions to restart nuclear power plants because they can't keep the lights on.

And your business? You're paying for every watt through exploding cloud bills. Listen to this week's episode. It's properly mental.