cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20016368
Modern AI data centers consume enormous amounts of power, and it looks like they will get even more power-hungry in the coming years as companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI strive towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). Oracle has already outlined plans to use nuclear power plants for its 1-gigawatt datacenters. It looks like Microsoft plans to do the same as it just inked a deal to restart a nuclear power plant to feed its data centers, reports Bloomberg.
Jesus Christ.
Look, I’m in favor of nuclear power. We have new designs that are much, much safer than the ones that failed back in the 80’s. Even so, we can get a Fukushima event; not world-ending but still pretty terrible.
The thing is, no matter how safe the design, Microsoft and other companies dialed in on greed–especially companies for whom power generation is not their core competency–can be trusted to cut corners until those safe designs become dangerous again.
And Three Mile Island WAS NOT A SAFE DESIGN.
What the fuck are we doing?
I did get a chuckle out of this though:
The facility will need to be fully restaffed
Yeah, it’s been 45 years, I don’t think those folks were waiting around for the place to reopen.
Constellation Energy will invest $1.6 billion to restart its Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania.
Microsoft is not going to be running the reactor. You didn’t read the article.
For anyone that thinks Microsoft is going to be in full control of the daily operations of this plant, you are sorely mistaken. The NRC has extremely strict regulations for all power plants, and I can promise you that Three Mile Island will be run to the same standards as any other nuclear power plant in the United States. TMI had design flaws that were heavily studied after the incident, and the findings from those investigations have influenced new legislation to prevent such accidents from happening again. The plant will be entirely overhauled to meet modern safety standards before coming back online, you can’t just chuck some uranium back into the core and flip a switch to turn it back on.
Why the fuck is anyone trusting Microsoft with a fucking reactor? I wouldn’t trust them with a fucking cock ring.
You didn’t read the article. Microsoft is not going to be running the reactor.
What do you mean? What could go wrong? It’s only 3-mile Island. I’m sure the patches they apply to the control rod computers will be double checked extra closely. Don’t worry!
PS - I live elsewhere
Sorry, musta missed it.
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Fuck me, how many times is this going to be posted?
Until people stop mindlessly clicking on bait about Microsoft, nuclear power, and AI being bad.
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