I’m not scared of nuclear power
but hearing it in the same sentence as ‘Microsoft AI’ sent a shiver down my spine
This sounds like the opening animatic for a new Fallout game.
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.
So long as it’s not Microsoft managing the plant nor are they using any MS product to do so…
“sorry boss, just saw ‘restart’ and updated the code…that’s not going to cause any reactor problems will it?”
It’s an experiment to see how OpenAI can control a nuclear power plant! Imagine the efficiency!
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.
Truly erasing the carbon footprint for hundreds of miles around!
I mean what could possibly go wrong?
Glad to see more carbon-free power on-lining!
Why in the world would you want to revive a clearly dangerous design of a plant.
Not only did you not read the article, but you apparently don’t know that much about TMI either. There are multiple reactors at TMI, the one that had the accident is not the one they’re restarting.
The one they’re restarting shut down a few years ago, along with several other nuclear plants, due to being too expensive to compete on cost with all the cheap gas post fracking boom.
Yes, for reasons passing understanding the state and federal government allowed existing, functional nuclear plants to close in favor of natural gas plants.
I saw that it was a different reactor, but is the design that much different from the one they had the problem with?
A poof of radioactive steam let loose. That’s it, the whole incident. People freaked out on March 28, 1979.
In totally unrelated news, The China Syndrome, about a reactor meltdown, came out March 16, 1979.
