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Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions (www.tomshardware.com)

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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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[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

if they ever admit the whole genAI thing doesn't work

. . . The entire multi-billion-dollar hype train goes off the cliff. All the executives that backed it look like clowns, the layoffs come back to bite them - hard - and Microsoft wont recover for a decade.

I mean . . . a boy can dream

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The workers will take the blunt of the executive's mismanagement.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Unless they unionize

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I mean, even with a union, if a company crumbles the laborers are out of a job.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

true?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Which the employees should.

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