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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.

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[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 21 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I just hope this deal doesn’t involve using their AI to monitor the reactor …

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (10 children)

There actually has been good work on using AI to control fusion plasmas its at the point where it can keep them stable significantly better than any human or simple automated system.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Yes in a research lab. Here we’re talking about Microsoft.

Have you ever used something they made? Did it meet your standard of being “good work”? No. It’s a greedy, soulless cash grab disguised as software that infects the entire organization and disables common sense.

M$ actually running a nuclear plant is a guaranteed disaster. Blue Screen of Death.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're not running it, though. They're making a deal with the owners (an actual nuclear power company) who are going to run it themselves and sell Microsoft the output.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, thank $deity.

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