A lot of power for AI and cloud datacenters.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20016368

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.

  • @lewdian69English
    8•3 hours ago

    So no one reads the articles? The reactor in question was only shut down in 2019 due to economic reasons. Unit 1 had been running fine this entire time, from 1974 to 2019. It will now be run by the energy company that’s been safely running it, it will just devote all generated power to Microsoft.