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Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for AI energy demands. (www.cnbc.com)
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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.

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[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AI better cure cancer if we're using this much energy on it.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The development of ACP_196 did use AI for huge portions of the raw sequencing and simulation, for what thats worth...

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

for what that is worth

A lot if you ask me. Unfortunately this will mostly be LLMs and image generators using this power probably.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

and user activity analyzer and recommendation systems, when looking at copilot