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.

  • peopleproblems
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    73 hours ago

    You know, that actually makes sense. Fusion is so energetic and probabilistic in nature, plus it’s effectively “charged fluid dynamics” and there are an impossible number of variables to handle. That’s literally the kind of shit AI is great at.

    Fission though? Not so much

    • @Womble
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      53 hours ago

      No, stick rod in / pull rod out doesn’t really need deep learning to make work well :p

      • peopleproblems
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        73 hours ago

        Apparently, I didn’t learn that with my ex