Microsoft Looking to Use Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Data Centers
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That feeling when your society is so dysfunctional that only corporations can build much needed advanced infrastructure.
Solar Panels are really cheap now.
Which is great when the sun's up and the weather is good. Similar deal for wind power, it's great when the conditions are good. We still haven't got very large scale storage where we need it to rely on renewables full time. Nuclear helps while we sort out storage but we need to be very, very careful about corruption - if corporations can screw over the public for money they've demonstrated that they will, and nuclear implementations cost a lot of money.
much needed? Nuclear Power for AI?
Nuclear power
what?
Nuclear power is not exclusively used for AI. Additionally, if they have their own power, then that frees up whatever energy they use for AI from other plants to be used for other purposes.
it still isn‘t a net gain for public infrastructure. which already lacks much needed investment.
It can be a net gain, who knows what one of these reactors will output?
If they do feed the grid, they'll probably get some credit back which ultimately lines their pockets instead of funding public infrastructure.
How is that any different from my putting solar panels and selling my excess?
Yes, you're not a corporation, you're an individual person. The difference is scale.
Government doesn't build infrastructure either, it mostly just funds private companies to build it for them.
Theres a whole contract bidding process and everything