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.

  • rainynight65
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    4 hours ago

    Three Mile Island is the epitome of

    conventional dirty energy

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      9 minutes ago

      How so? It’s easy to say things so bold, but I’d like to hear your reasoning.