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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors (futurism.com)
submitted 1 year ago by FlyingSquid to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nuclear power means they can do both.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hear me out:

What if we used that nuclear power only to fix the environment?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ok, find someone willing to pay for one for that purpose.

Microsoft isn't 'we'

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're free to invest in nuclear power for that purpose if you want.

Microsoft is investing in nuclear power to run their AI projects. They likely wouldn't be investing in nuclear power if they didn't have projects that needed it like this.

[–] FlyingSquid 11 points 1 year ago

And the U.S. government wouldn't have invested in all of the development that went into the Apollo program if they didn't want to beat the Russians, but we still all benefitted from the science and the research and the development.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No. Nuclear power is not anti climate like the other fossil fuels, but still anti ecosytems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How exactly is a nuke plant antiecosystems? Under that guise, pretty much anything humans do is as such.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Uran mining & nuclear waste.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nuclear power still requires huge front costs (goal of SMR is to reduce that, but first generations will not solve it), so it could be better to use them for every day life needs rather than a prospective commercial venture.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only if there's a meltdown, and that's near-impossible with current reactor designs. Just don't build in very disaster-prone areas like Florida or Japan.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you have misread the comment you replied to.