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minus-squareparpol@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoSome companies like Microsoft have started buying old closed down nuclear power plants like Three Mile Island in order to use them to power their AI, so hopefully it can offset a large portion of the energy demand. https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-ai
minus-squarevrighter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoif the nuclear plant is actually reopened, it’s still be a huge waste. Because we really need that energy elsewhere rn
minus-squareFlauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·20 days agoMicrosoft isn’t the sort of company I would want to run a nuclear power plant. That’s a huge responsibility
minus-squareA_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoMicrosoft isnt just reactivating old nuclear power plants. They are building what could very well be the first functional commercial fusion power plant https://interestingengineering.com/energy/world-first-fusion-power-plant-helion
minus-squaregheesh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoGreat, just what the world needed: bigtech buying (scarce, non-renewable) uranium and selling the resulting plutonium to the highest bidder.
Some companies like Microsoft have started buying old closed down nuclear power plants like Three Mile Island in order to use them to power their AI, so hopefully it can offset a large portion of the energy demand.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-ai
if the nuclear plant is actually reopened, it’s still be a huge waste. Because we really need that energy elsewhere rn
Microsoft isn’t the sort of company I would want to run a nuclear power plant. That’s a huge responsibility
Microsoft isnt just reactivating old nuclear power plants.
They are building what could very well be the first functional commercial fusion power plant
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/world-first-fusion-power-plant-helion
Great, just what the world needed: bigtech buying (scarce, non-renewable) uranium and selling the resulting plutonium to the highest bidder.