Technology @lemmy.world TheOne @lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hr. ago

Tech firms increasingly look to nuclear power for data center.

www.voanews.com Tech firms increasingly look to nuclear power for data center

Facilities that power cloud computing and artificial intelligence consume vast amounts of electricity, posing challenges for companies' promises to reach net-zero emissions

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This seems... idk, ideal? Lets use our cleanest & most energy dense means of power generation for our most frivolously expanding waste of energy. Unless we give microsoft authority over the DOE, which we aren't (maybe IBM tho, they seem like they can be trusted...), I'm not really seeing a downside to this.
- IBM can be trusted, lol how easily history forgets.
  
  Involvement with Nazi Germany: During the 1930s and early 1940s.
  
  Apartheid-era South Africa
  
  Antitrust issues, In the 1970s, IBM was the subject of a major antitrust lawsuit by the U.S. government.
  
  disposal of hazardous waste from manufacturing facilities.
  
  outsourcing of jobs to other countries.
  
  IBM has faced multiple lawsuits and investigations for age discrimination.
  
  lobbying for government surveillance .
  
  Congrats, you got the joke!
- Ideal would be them not reversing a decade of energy savings in the name of AI, but yeah, if they're going to do that anyway then Nuclear is one of the better options.
- Couldn't that power be used to take control over Bitcoin chain?
  
  Tbh we probably already have that. Five Eyes is wildly held to control 50% of the TOR nodes, bitcoin cant be that much less of a priority.
  
  no. safety of bitcoin is based on cryptography, not lack of electrical power. that would be most bizarre case of security through obscurity.
So I missed out on US nuclear stock? Damn

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