• @Warl0k3
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    6 hours ago

    This seems… idk, ideal? Lets use our cleanest & most energy dense means of power generation for our most frivolously expanding waste of energy. Unless we give microsoft authority over the DOE, which we aren’t (maybe IBM tho, they seem like they can be trusted…), I’m not really seeing a downside to this.

    • @stupidcasey
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      116 hours ago

      IBM can be trusted, lol how easily history forgets.

      1. Involvement with Nazi Germany: During the 1930s and early 1940s.

      2. Apartheid-era South Africa

      3. Antitrust issues, In the 1970s, IBM was the subject of a major antitrust lawsuit by the U.S. government.

      4. disposal of hazardous waste from manufacturing facilities.

      5. outsourcing of jobs to other countries.

      6. IBM has faced multiple lawsuits and investigations for age discrimination.

      7. lobbying for government surveillance .​

      • @Warl0k3
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        5 hours ago

        Congrats, you got the joke!

    • @Vash63
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      56 hours ago

      Ideal would be them not reversing a decade of energy savings in the name of AI, but yeah, if they’re going to do that anyway then Nuclear is one of the better options.

    • @takeda
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      -36 hours ago

      Couldn’t that power be used to take control over Bitcoin chain?

      • @[email protected]
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        26 hours ago

        no. safety of bitcoin is based on cryptography, not lack of electrical power. that would be most bizarre case of security through obscurity.

      • @Warl0k3
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        16 hours ago

        Tbh we probably already have that. Five Eyes is wildly held to control 50% of the TOR nodes, bitcoin cant be that much less of a priority.

  • @someacnt_
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    15 hours ago

    So I missed out on US nuclear stock? Damn