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

• ZILtoid1991@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hear me out:

  What if we used that nuclear power only to fix the environment?

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  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No. Nuclear power is not anti climate, but still anti ecology.

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    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How exactly is a nuke plant antiecosystems? Under that guise, pretty much anything humans do is as such.

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      • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Uran mining & nuclear waste.

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  • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You're free to invest in nuclear power for that purpose if you want.

    Microsoft is investing in nuclear power to run their AI projects. They likely wouldn't be investing in nuclear power if they didn't have projects that needed it like this.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And the U.S. government wouldn’t have invested in all of the development that went into the Apollo program if they didn’t want to beat the Russians, but we still all benefitted from the science and the research and the development.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Only if there’s a meltdown, and that’s near-impossible with current reactor designs. Just don’t build in very disaster-prone areas like Florida or Japan.

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  • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think you have misread the comment you replied to.

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    • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Indeed. Using nuclear power avoids causing trouble to the ecosystem.

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• oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nuclear power still requires huge front costs (goal of SMR is to reduce that, but first generations will not solve it), so it could better to use them for every day life needs rather than a prospective commercial venture.

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