Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• BaronVonBort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re going to build it in 2026 but it’ll still somehow be running on XP.

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  • Abnorc@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “What operating system is that running?”

    “Uh… vista.”

    “We’re all going to die!”

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    • megabite@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If they make it Windows ME then we ARE ALL DEAD!

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    • seyrine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

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  • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    XP is still a solid OS as long as you don’t connect to the internet.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A nuclear reactor connected to the internet sounds like a bad idea.

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      • AttackPanda@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mean it’s fine so long as someone remembers to pay the Mcafee bill right???

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      • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not that you’re safe even if it’s not connected to the internet (stuxnet comes to mind)

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      • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m not sure why you think it would be connected to the internet.

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• whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Even Microsoft does not trust Windows on Azure 🤣

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• Godort@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’ll probably not use Windows, instead opting for an OS that is proven to work with already running reactors, like QNX

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  • swab148@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They should run Arch, btw

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    • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      More stable than Windows I guess

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • bemenaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hm… risk of nuclear disaster? Or more expense? Hm… I’ll have to think about this one.

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      • PlexSheep@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Your logic is fallacious: the solution is not to build a nuclear reactor but seek an alternative.

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      • Anamana@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lol, even Microsoft wouldn’t use Windows to train AI.

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• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Like Microsoft uses Windows for anything that matters since they got rid of Balmer.

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  • jarfil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But… Developers!.. /s

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A lot of them do IIRC, windows 98 is popping into my mind as an instance I’ve read of

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  • dezmd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Windows NT or 2000. Not 98.

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah yes you’re correct, Windows 98 is the British nuclear submarines

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      • dezmd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Now THAT is wild as hell.

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• Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.)

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  • spitfire@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What are you running? I’ve never had an issue like that at all

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