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Microsoft Looking to Use Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Data Centers (www.extremetech.com)
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Microsoft Looking to Use Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Data Centers::undefined

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[–] geissi@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

companies like Microsoft are always considering novel methods for powering (and cooling) their data centers

If they are near population centers, they could use the excess heat from both for remote heating.
But mostly adding a nuclear power plant to a data center will require additional cooling.