much needed? Nuclear Power for AI?
Comment on Microsoft Looking to Use Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Data Centers
seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That feeling when your society is so dysfunctional that only corporations can build much needed advanced infrastructure.
tillimarleen@feddit.de 1 year ago
optissima@possumpat.io 1 year ago
Nuclear power
tillimarleen@feddit.de 1 year ago
what?
sebinspace@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nuclear power is not exclusively used for AI. Additionally, if they have their own power, then that frees up whatever energy they use for AI from other plants to be used for other purposes.
lightnegative@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Government doesn’t build infrastructure either, it mostly just funds private companies to build it for them.
Theres a whole contract bidding process and everything
Turun@feddit.de 1 year ago
Solar Panels are really cheap now.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Which is great when the sun’s up and the weather is good. Similar deal for wind power, it’s great when the conditions are good. We still haven’t got very large scale storage where we need it to rely on renewables full time. Nuclear helps while we sort out storage but we need to be very, very careful about corruption - if corporations can screw over the public for money they’ve demonstrated that they will, and nuclear implementations cost a lot of money.