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Wow Bethesda is really going all out to promote Fallout.
Brb gettig my Nuka cola
AI better cure cancer if we're using this much energy on it.
The development of ACP_196 did use AI for huge portions of the raw sequencing and simulation, for what thats worth...
for what that is worth
A lot if you ask me. Unfortunately this will mostly be LLMs and image generators using this power probably.
and user activity analyzer and recommendation systems, when looking at copilot
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Seriously, we need the less carbon-emitting plants to replace the dirty coal ones, not come online just to power the AI hype :smh:
If/when the ai hype train crashes, it would already be online and therefore a good argument can be made to redirect the power to the grid instead of the then-defunct project
That's true, but this reactor had been operating for decades, until 2019. Methane was too cheap (and didn't have to pay for its waste) and made it unprofitable, so they stopped. Presumably the price MS is willing to lock in at makes it profitable for them again. I assume they predict prices going up or they're getting it cheap.
Keep in mind, MS has only signed an agreement to buy 100% of the output, not the reactor itself.
Maybe true. But if we have increased energy demand it might as well be nuclear.
Halting ai development might be nice according to many people, but we cant make that happen. Fraud alone is magnitudes more rampant. Its here to stay and we have to deal with it. I think this is a big win.
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If you hate nuclear energy because you think it's dangerous or polluting, that is as dumb as choosing to drive instead of taking the train for the same reasons.
Nuclear energy is one of the methods of generating electricity with the smallest environmental impact and also much, much safer than the alternatives. The number of nuclear accidents can be counted on one hand, while the number of people who have died from cancer from coal power plants is conservatively estimated to be in the millions.
Nuclear energy produces waste that burdens present and virtually all future generations. There is no operating repository anywhere in the world. And even if there were, the question of the risks to future generations will always be one that, from today's perspective, can only be answered in a projection-based manner. Positing that the issues of final disposal and long-term safety for the next one million years have been technically solved is thus insufficient. (https://www.base.bund.de/SharedDocs/Kurzmeldungen/BASE/EN/2021/1109-brussels-nuclear-energy-is-not-green.html)
Completely valid point, but I think it's important to talk about the amount of waste produced compared to other methods and how the comparably negligible amounts are manageable until we decide to clean it or "fire it off at the sun" or whatever.
It isn't even close to comparable for the amount of environmental impact coal or plastic has had.
I mean, comparing that to coal isn't a very impressive feat. Nuclear power is very expensive, fission material is limited and sourced from dodgy countries, storage is difficult etc. The emissions are the only good thing about it. There are good alternatives to that. I guess using the existing ones until they need to be decommissioned is still a good idea though.
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bro just one more ~~lane~~ power plant bro, bro I swear just one more and it'll fix the ~~traffic~~ energy demands bro
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