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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Better than coal or oil, it might even result in more R&D into reactor designs.

There’s no shortage of modern reactor designs. We have amazing stuff designed and even prototyped and proven - low waste, safely-failing reactors that basically can’t melt down. All we really lack is funding and regulatory clearance to build more.

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