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

• Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Capital costs is incomplete, you need to look at lifetime costs versus lifetime production to get a more useful average - Levelized cost of energy (LCOE)

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Levelized_cost_of_electricity

  lazard.com/…/2023-levelized-cost-of-energyplus/

  ourworldindata.org/…/levelized-cost-of-energy

  iea.org/…/projected-costs-of-generating-electrici…

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  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wikipedia is owned by someone who’s married to an intelligence agency member.

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    • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I see absolutely no relevance here

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      • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Mmkay

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• EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wikipedia is owned by someone who’s married to an intelligence agency member.

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  • Nobsi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lemmy is owned by genocide deniers. Whats your point?

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• Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Damn. Sucks to still see Natural Gas as the cheapest.

  I think that modern nuclear designs have a place in decarbonization but I don’t think it is cheaper and we have a lot of hurdles still.

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  • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wind power at shores is generally cheapest

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