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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#Capital_costs

    No, it isnt.
    Safety isnt what makes nuclear expensive. You actually got rawdogged by Nuclear fanatics.

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      Wikipedia is owned by someone who’s married to an intelligence agency member.

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        Lemmy is owned by genocide deniers. Whats your point?

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      Capital costs is incomplete, you need to look at lifetime costs versus lifetime production to get a more useful average - Levelized cost of energy (LCOE)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity

      https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost-of-energyplus/

      https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/levelized-cost-of-energy

      https://www.iea.org/reports/projected-costs-of-generating-electricity-2020

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        Wikipedia is owned by someone who’s married to an intelligence agency member.

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          I see absolutely no relevance here

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            Mmkay

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