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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There is nothing wrong with nuclear power
Thats what France said.
And France is doing perfectly fine with it except for skimping on maintenance and also them coming up on their end-of-life without replacement
Half of them were off at some point which means they lost over a third of their entire energy production which means they had to import a ton.
Some of them are still not back online.
That list records 8 fatalities related to nuclear power in the US. All time.
Coal is responsible for more than 40. Per year. Just in my city.
To be fair, though, the top comment said "nothing wrong" and the guy just followed up with the wrong
I still think we have access to this energy source and are basically just ignoring it so oil and coal and continue to soak up tax payer funded subsidies and ruin our planet.
You are also forgetting the years of life lost due to air pollution.
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Almost anything has the potential to negatively affect tens of thousands of people when it's managed as recklessly and negligently as Chernobyl.
Chernobyl was less a reactor and more a bomb with a very long fuse. Saying we shouldn't build nuclear reactors today is like saying you shouldn't take a modern cruise because 14th century sailing ships sank all the time.
OK what about a natural disaster that caused Fukushima?
How many years has it been since chernobyl?
Not the 320 years it will take for the exclusion zone to be habitable again.
37 years since that single nuclear accident that devastated the site and left around 2600 Square kilometres around it still unsafe to be in nearly 4 decades later.