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Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The thought of a nuclear reactor running on Windows is terrifying.
whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Godort@lemm.ee 8 months ago
They’ll probably not use Windows, instead opting for an OS that is proven to work with already running reactors, like QNX
swab148@startrek.website 8 months ago
They should run Arch, btw
netchami@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
More stable than Windows I guess
scarabic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Modern nuclear reactors are designed to fail safely, so Windows couldn’t actually create a Chernobyl. Everything wrong with nuclear in our world is with old-gen plants. It’s a technology that got ahead of itself by 50 years.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Yeah, there’s very little information in the article on what type of reactor they plan to use, but I hope they’re able to go with something like a molten salt reactor with the thorium fuel cycle.
scarabic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Getting half a dozen of those built and in use would be exactly the kind of thing that tech billionaires are actually good for.
prole@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Fuck that. Take all the government grants and subsidies that would surely exist, and then use it for their own good/profit/power hoarding? No thanks.
Putting billionaires in control of our nuclear power infrastructure after “building” them with mostly taxpayer money, when it’s all said and done, is an absolutely bone chilling thought. Terrifying.
bemenaker@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The picture they show is from terrapower, the company Bill Gates funded, which is a thorium reactor. Thorium liquid salt reactors are still difficult because of the metallurgy. I believe they were supposed to fit the small modular concept though.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 months ago
[deleted]scarabic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hm… risk of nuclear disaster? Or more expense? Hm… I’ll have to think about this one.
PlexSheep@feddit.de 8 months ago
Your logic is fallacious: the solution is not to build a nuclear reactor but seek an alternative.
Anamana@feddit.de 8 months ago
Hm… invest into your companies cybersecurity before or after you get hacked?
Companies don’t care enough about risks if they are not forced to comply.
thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Lol, even Microsoft wouldn’t use Windows to train AI.
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Like Microsoft uses Windows for anything that matters since they got rid of Balmer.
jarfil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But… Developers!.. /s
9point6@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A lot of them do IIRC, windows 98 is popping into my mind as an instance I’ve read of
dezmd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Windows NT or 2000. Not 98.
9point6@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ah yes you’re correct, Windows 98 is the British nuclear submarines
dezmd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Now THAT is wild as hell.
Rakonat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Could be worse, could be running MacOS. Surely nothing bad can happen while the entire system freezes for no reason for 15 minutes or more without any possible input from the user. It will always fix it self… (hopefully before the reactor achieves a run away meltdown chain.)
spitfire@infosec.pub 8 months ago
What are you running? I’ve never had an issue like that at all
BaronVonBort@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They’re going to build it in 2026 but it’ll still somehow be running on XP.
Abnorc@lemm.ee 8 months ago
“What operating system is that running?”
“Uh… vista.”
“We’re all going to die!”
megabite@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If they make it Windows ME then we ARE ALL DEAD!
seyrine@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
XP is still a solid OS as long as you don’t connect to the internet.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A nuclear reactor connected to the internet sounds like a bad idea.
AttackPanda@programming.dev 8 months ago
I mean it’s fine so long as someone remembers to pay the Mcafee bill right???
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Not that you’re safe even if it’s not connected to the internet (stuxnet comes to mind)
thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
I’m not sure why you think it would be connected to the internet.