Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoMicrosoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactorsfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square351fedilinkarrow-up11.07Karrow-down127
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minus-squaresixCats@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50arrow-down5·9 months agoThis seems kind of ideal though, computers provide a near constant load (relatively speaking) that combines very well with nuclear energy. Perhaps we should be asking why we haven’t already been doing this for the past decade?
minus-squareActers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down5·edit-29 months agoBecause it costs less money to push the cost to for taxpayers to subsidize it than owning it Correction
minus-squareguacupado@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·9 months agoTell me you know nothing about data centers without telling me.
This seems kind of ideal though, computers provide a near constant load (relatively speaking) that combines very well with nuclear energy.
Perhaps we should be asking why we haven’t already been doing this for the past decade?
Because it costs less money
to push the cost tofor taxpayers to subsidize it than owning itCorrection
Tell me you know nothing about data centers without telling me.