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The tax breaks in the Inflation Recovery Act are crucial to making the deal economically feasible, according to Constellation. They provide a credit for every megawatt hour of nuclear energy produced.
lmao so instead of this funding the energy transition it’s just subsidizing the AI grift
600 nuclear power plants to fuel the ultimate ai prompt: anime girl with boobs as big as the universe
they should use AI to run it too.
Oh god please tell me the AI isn’t gonna run it
Oh god please tell me the AI is gonna run it
I didn’t have the motivation to read the whole thing so I scanned it for funny stuff. But it looked dreary so the only thing I read was the final paragraph. The article ends on a funny note. Tech companies don’t even bother to make an effort to lie anymore. Look at this shit.
Microsoft has signed a contract to purchase fusion energy from a start-up that claims it can deliver it by 2028.
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Microsoft has signed a contract to purchase fusion energy from a start-up that claims it can deliver it by 2028.
It might happen by 2128
Seriously though - I wonder how that firm choose four years. “About a decade” is equally bullshit but to some people it would sound like a moonshot they might get to. But four years sounds like purely made up bullshit to appeal to VC firms.
That startup (helion or whatever its called) claimed in 2013 they would be producing power by 2018, then in 2018 claimed they would be producing power by 2023, and then in 2023 claimed they would be producing power by 2028. I’m starting to see a pattern
Reactivating a notorious nuclear power plant solely to run AI sounds like a story beat that was cut from a Kojima game.
Jesus fucking christ
Fuck all AI anything.
Bit idea: America decides to start constructing nuclear reactors in mass but only to power AI chips
be fun if this was an elaborate trick to get states to build up nuclear and renewable power and then the bubble pops and it’s “lol that shit was fake the whole time”
My dad sent me an AI-generated summary of whether AI investments are a bubble or not. It’s at least one of the ones that cites sources, but it’s still surreal.
I want TMI reopened, but holy fuck not for this bullshit reason. Fuck this.
It should be open btw but solely for SEPTA to be powered perpetually
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lol
China will win the GAI war.
I’d be more than fine with that. Maybe the tool would be used for useful things and not be used everywhere at the planet’s expense just to chase the hype.
And of course the second tragedy is that the AI is absolute dogshit. They’re not powering an artificial general intelligence that could do useful things like help in running a modern global-scale Project Cybersyn. All this staggering amount of electricity wasted so that Github users don’t need to search Stackoverflow, so that people can say “hey google set a 4 minute timer” in their kitchens instead of hitting a half-dozen buttons on their microwave, so that people can tell Alexa to play Despacito.
They’re not powering an artificial general intelligence that could do useful things like help in running a modern global-scale Project Cybersyn.
You don’t need that for planning and in fact the People’s Commissariat for Energetics’ secret police would send you to super gulag for suggesting such a preposterous thing.
AGI is science fiction so of course not
People also put a lot of emphasis on the “I” in Artificial General Intelligence. It gives us the impression that we will have some kind of contraption with a button on it, and every time you push the button it conjures up a new, distinct digital agent of Albert Einstein. For a long, long time, at best, these things will conjure your average Redditor. People think if we create AGI we can tell computers to compose Mozart, but we’ll be lucky if we get anywhere farther than “I glued my balls to my butthole again.”