There is something wrong with your tech if you need your own nuclear plant to run it.
I mean, it's better than coal, but still.
There is something wrong with your tech if you need your own nuclear plant to run it.
I mean, it's better than coal, but still.
I'm not scared of nuclear power
but hearing it in the same sentence as 'Microsoft AI' sent a shiver down my spine
A 20 year deal, with no power produced until 2028?
Either MS really do know something we don't, or this bubble has grained a layer of strontium.
It doesn't really matter whether it's LLMs. There are limits to the value of creating an increasing amount of new hardware to do any particular math, but once you have the hardware it's pretty easy to find applications for the electricity to pay for itself.
There are countless spaces that will benefit from as much math as we can give them for a long time.
It's the second one. They are all in on this AI bullshit because they've got nothing else. There are no other exponential growth markets left. Capitalism has gotten so autocanibalistic that simply being a global monopoly in multiple different fields isn't good enough. For investors it's not about how big your company is, how reliable your yearly returns are, how stable your customer base; the only thing that matters is how fast your business is growing. But small businesses have no space to grow because of the monopolies filling every available space, and the monopolies are already monopolies. There are no worlds left to conquer. They've already turned every single piece of our digital lives into a subscription, blockchain was a total bust, the metaverse was a demented fever dream, VR turned out to be a niche toy at best; unless someone comes up with some brand new thing that no one has ever heard of before, AI is the last big boondoggle they have left to hit the public with.
This sounds like the opening animatic for a new Fallout game.
Given how faulty and untrustworthy AI is it only makes sense to give it the keys to nuclear power plants.
Fucking geniuses.
The plant is being started back up to meet new power demands from AI, AI won't be controlling the plants.
So long as it's not Microsoft managing the plant nor are they using any MS product to do so...
It's an experiment to see how OpenAI can control a nuclear power plant! Imagine the efficiency!
Truly erasing the carbon footprint for hundreds of miles around!
I mean what could possibly go wrong?
Not this particular one. The only mention of IpenAI is
Altman has backed and is the chairman of nuclear power startup Oklo (OKLO.N), which went public through a blank-check merger in May, while TerraPower - a startup Gates co-founded - broke ground on a nuclear facility in June.
"sorry boss, just saw 'restart' and updated the code...that's not going to cause any reactor problems will it?"
Glad to see more carbon-free power on-lining!
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