Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors
Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors
Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.
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with the hopes of buying electricity from it as soon as 2028.
Fusion won’t be ready by then
Energy should be public
31 5 Replyenergy, water, food and housing should not be used for profit. Everything else is fair game.
12 9 ReplyNah, not everything else. You can add healthcare to the list.
15 0 ReplyAgreed! Idk why that didn't come to mind.
1 0 ReplyThe irony is very funny considering your username :)
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And healthcare. You know, all the stuff to keep us alive.
14 1 ReplyBut there's so much profit to be made in things required to survive.
There isn't a price point at which I'll choose to quit using food and water.
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Max Planck seems to have learned from the Fraunhofer mp3 thing and is getting their hands dirty with commercialising Stellerators. "In the 2030s", right now they're drafting, maybe simulating. Awfully short on details right now if you understand anything about fusion.
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