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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors (futurism.com)
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[โ€“] SineSwiper@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Microsoft is big enough that government would force them to pay up. There is just too much public pressure for that kind of disaster to get waved away.

Also, there are nuclear options that are far safer than water-based reactors. WCRs are literally the worst possible design for a nuclear reactor, and we were stupid enough to choose that over dry material reactors in the 60s.

[โ€“] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Microsoft is big enough that government would force them to pay up.

Lmao

Just like they made the banks pay up? Like how they make oil companies pay up?

Right now it's commonplace for oil rigs and nuclear plants to be decommissioned on the taxpayer, sometimes entirely funded by them even, rather than by the company.