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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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[โ€“] Womble@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, stick rod in / pull rod out doesn't really need deep learning to make work well :p

[โ€“] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Apparently, I didn't learn that with my ex