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Google considers sourcing from nuclear power plants, says CEO Pichai

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Google considers sourcing from nuclear power plants, says CEO Pichai

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Generative Ai is such a drain on our resources. While I am happy this is bringing about more green energy sources, watching it be poured into such meaningless bullshit is depressing.
- Well, AI models will improve and so will the hardware. Hopefully that means down the line, Ai will run on pretty conventional hardware and there will be an abundance of green energy.
  
  Awfully optimistic of you.

To be honest, I'm surprised Google/Alphabet hasn't tried to get into running their own reactor by this point. Energy seems like the one thing they haven't touched yet.
- Probably because once you start a nuclear reactor you can't kill the project and discard it on a whim.
  
  That was a nasty line by you
  
  Eh, that's their software side. Google doesn't do that with hardware infrastructure like data centers.

Microsoft:
<comes with a controversial idea>
Google: Hey! That is a great idea! Let me say publicly that I want to do the same

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