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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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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.

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Power density matters. And nuclear is pretty fucking dense haha

… for some applications. Not most tho. Really like 5. Everything else should be solar/wind/hydro

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