Three Mile Island was the worst nuclear accident in US history. Was mainly caused by poor design of human feedback systems which caused operational confusion and lead to a catastrophic failure.
Ohh amazing what happen when corpos need something done lol
Fuck u peasants, sucks to suck
How dumb. With 1.6B you could install so much more Watts of power with wind turbines and solar parks with the added benefit of less carbon and less nuclear waste and less chance of boom.
Not to mention that wind turbines and solar parks are faster to set up AND scalable. A nuclear plant is neither.
I mean, I guess it might be cheaper to start up a nuclear plant again than to build a new solar/wind farm. There’s also someone below who claims that nuclear is actually cheaper.
Interesting. What is the chance a nuclear plant goes boom? Sounds legit.
Very unlikely if maintained properly. The other facts are a lot more important. In addition to the most important one of WAY cheaper price per kWh (of Solar/Wind). And one medium important thing: Nuclear plants often rely on a river for cooling. If said river gets to warm/carries to little water the plant may have to shut down (happened a lot in France recently).
Very unlikely if maintained properly.
Well, are they? All of them?
Seriously, we need the less carbon-emitting plants to replace the dirty coal ones, not come online just to power the AI hype :smh:
Maybe true. But if we have increased energy demand it might as well be nuclear.
Halting ai development might be nice according to many people, but we cant make that happen. Fraud alone is magnitudes more rampant. Its here to stay and we have to deal with it. I think this is a big win.
You’re assuming “AI” isn’t fraud?
This is a pretty fucking stupid comment lmao
What the hell are you talking about?
Probably they mean the way “AI” is presented to the public / investors. Most things that claim to be “AI” aren’t, they’re just regular boring ol’ software, and even those things that do use AI are usually just using them for one tiny facet that doesn’t actually require them.
There’s potential for some incredible advances in AI right now, but outside of some novelty examples we really haven’t figured out what it’s actually useful for quite yet. It’s one of the more interesting questions in the field.
Agreed, but the point of the original reply is that AI, like fraud, is magnitudes more rampant and here to stay. For now.
And that fraud is specifically rampant because of ai… so if companies arent using ai to combat it then they would never be able to keep up.
If the general bulk of appreciable-quantity tech investors suddenly found out in granular detail what is actually being done with their money as opposed to what they were told, it would probably cause the biggest crash since the Great Depression.
If/when the ai hype train crashes, it would already be online and therefore a good argument can be made to redirect the power to the grid instead of the then-defunct project
That’s true, but this reactor had been operating for decades, until 2019. Methane was too cheap (and didn’t have to pay for its waste) and made it unprofitable, so they stopped. Presumably the price MS is willing to lock in at makes it profitable for them again. I assume they predict prices going up or they’re getting it cheap.
Keep in mind, MS has only signed an agreement to buy 100% of the output, not the reactor itself.
bro just one more
lanepower plant bro, bro I swear just one more and it’ll fix thetrafficenergy demands broI think it’s fine if Microsoft has their own nuclear power plant as long as every Microsoft corporate officer is required to live downwind of it. ✌🏻
What?
Coal plants are the ones that produce radioactive smog. Nuclear plants just put off steam. The radioactive material doesn’t come into contact with the clean water loop that is used to spin the turbine and generate power unless something is catastrophically wrong.
The dangerous byproduct, spent fuel rods, are stored in pools buried deep, and radioactivity is drastically abetted by the spent rods being submerged in water.
Seriously, you anti nuclear people are like anti vaxxers. It’s very minimal reading to learn how this shit works so that you can have valid critique, but no, that’s too tough.
And as you called “anti-nuclear people” “anti-vaxxers” I might add that those small nuclear reactors are such a tech bro bullshit.
Microsoft already works on nuclear stewardship + the NIF, how much worse could it possibly be?
Um… you realize that nuclear doesn’t give of any pollutants?
AI better cure cancer if we’re using this much energy on it.
The development of ACP_196 did use AI for huge portions of the raw sequencing and simulation, for what thats worth…
