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Microsoft Looking to Use Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Data Centers::undefined

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[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That feeling when your society is so dysfunctional that only corporations can build much needed advanced infrastructure.

[–] Turun@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Solar Panels are really cheap now.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Which is great when the sun's up and the weather is good. Similar deal for wind power, it's great when the conditions are good. We still haven't got very large scale storage where we need it to rely on renewables full time. Nuclear helps while we sort out storage but we need to be very, very careful about corruption - if corporations can screw over the public for money they've demonstrated that they will, and nuclear implementations cost a lot of money.

[–] tillimarleen@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

much needed? Nuclear Power for AI?

[–] optissima@possumpat.io 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] tillimarleen@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nuclear power is not exclusively used for AI. Additionally, if they have their own power, then that frees up whatever energy they use for AI from other plants to be used for other purposes.

[–] tillimarleen@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it still isn‘t a net gain for public infrastructure. which already lacks much needed investment.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It can be a net gain, who knows what one of these reactors will output?

[–] Cyberwitch_7493@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If they do feed the grid, they'll probably get some credit back which ultimately lines their pockets instead of funding public infrastructure.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How is that any different from my putting solar panels and selling my excess?

Yes, you're not a corporation, you're an individual person. The difference is scale.

[–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Government doesn't build infrastructure either, it mostly just funds private companies to build it for them.

Theres a whole contract bidding process and everything