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Microsoft to Revive Nuclear Plant on Three Mile Island to Handle AI Processing (www.pcmag.com)

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[–] HowManyNimons 6 points 3 months ago (8 children)

ELI5 please why they don't just put their server farms in a desert, roofed with solar panels and a big-bum battery?

[–] SuperIce 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Because you want data centers to be closer to the users for speed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Transit latency is a tiny tiny fraction of the round trip time for AI processing tasks. Until AI tasks are in the order of milliseconds instead of seconds it's a rounding error.

[–] HowManyNimons 3 points 3 months ago

Doesn't that depend on the application?

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