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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · vor 2 Jahren

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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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · vor 2 Jahren
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Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.
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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#Capital_costs

      No, it isnt.
      Safety isnt what makes nuclear expensive. You actually got rawdogged by Nuclear fanatics.

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        Damn. Sucks to still see Natural Gas as the cheapest.

        I think that modern nuclear designs have a place in decarbonization but I don’t think it is cheaper and we have a lot of hurdles still.

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          Wind power at shores is generally cheapest

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        Capital costs is incomplete, you need to look at lifetime costs versus lifetime production to get a more useful average - Levelized cost of energy (LCOE)

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity

        https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost-of-energyplus/

        https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/levelized-cost-of-energy

        https://www.iea.org/reports/projected-costs-of-generating-electricity-2020

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            I see absolutely no relevance here

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          Lemmy is owned by genocide deniers. Whats your point?

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      Yea this entire clickbait can be summarized as “company looks to spend less on high capacity power”

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      Rare lemming reasonable take

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      And you just need to find good non science fiction way to deal with nuclear waste.

      And some ethical ways of aquiring uranium.

      With all that calculated in, I am certain how much cheaper it is.

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