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Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions (www.tomshardware.com)
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Modern AI data centers consume enormous amounts of power, and it looks like they will get even more power-hungry in the coming years as companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI strive towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). Oracle has already outlined plans to use nuclear power plants for its 1-gigawatt datacenters. It looks like Microsoft plans to do the same as it just inked a deal to restart a nuclear power plant to feed its data centers, reports Bloomberg.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On the other hand, if they ever admit the whole genAI thing doesn't work, they could just sell the electricity produced by the plant.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if they ever admit the whole genAI thing doesn't work

. . . The entire multi-billion-dollar hype train goes off the cliff. All the executives that backed it look like clowns, the layoffs come back to bite them - hard - and Microsoft wont recover for a decade.

I mean . . . a boy can dream

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The workers will take the blunt of the executive's mismanagement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unless they unionize

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, even with a union, if a company crumbles the laborers are out of a job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Which the employees should.