Posted on 09/21/2024 9:52:17 AM PDT by aquila48
Modern AI data centers consume enormous amounts of power, and it looks like they will get even more power-hungry in the coming years as companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI strive towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). Oracle has already outlined plans to use nuclear power plants for its 1-gigawatt datacenters. It looks like Microsoft plans to do the same as it just inked a deal to restart a nuclear power plant to feed its data centers, reports Bloomberg.
819 MW for AI and cloud data centers
Constellation Energy will invest $1.6 billion to restart its Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. The revived reactor will provide clean electricity to Microsoft for 20 years, supporting the tech giant's AI and cloud computing energy needs. This reactor had a generating capacity of approximately 819 megawatts (MW) of electricity, which is enough power for a small to medium-sized city with hundreds of thousands of homes. The plant should be operational by 2028, and it will serve Microsoft exclusively. This agreement represents Microsoft's first long-term commitment to nuclear energy, which is part of its strategy to meet its growing energy needs with carbon-free sources.
Three Mile Island has two reactors, one of which (with a capacity of 906 MW) was shut down in 1979 after a nuclear accident. The other (with a capacity of 819 MW), closed in 2019 due to economic issues, is now set to reopen thanks to the deal with Microsoft
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I don’t want to see my skin aglow.
More people died in Ted Kennedy’s car than from Three Mile Island...
Nuclear is coming back!
Na, Microsoft needs the power for it’s AI to takeover the world ,LOL
Nuclear is coming back, but not to lower energy prices.
OK, now we *know* Bill Gates hates humanity! /sarc>
Should be made to use solar and wind only, considering what these Red Fascists want everybody else to use.
Easy targets once Skynet achieves sentience.
absolutely. where are the cries for “green”, “sustainable,” “zero-carbon-footprint,” “Greenpeace compliant” or whatever AI?
“I don’t want to see my skin aglow.”
Cherenkov “glow” only happens in a clear medium like water.
Artificial general intelligence is sentient AI with intellect at least equal too human’s...I saw this movie series John Conner dies in the end.
So it’s ok for nukes to be used when 24/7 power is absolutely needed for the machine overlords. At least the globalhomos are admitting nuclear is that power source so the rest of the population can roast them for it when the grid collapses.
Please don’t let microsoft have anything to do with a Nuclear plant operation.
Would YOU get on a plane that used Msoft as the flight computers?
Nothing like a blue screen or forced reboot, right?
Abort,, Retry Fail?
Technology requires energy and water so you and I must use less.
Yeah but you should see what the kids born looked like after it.
But no fly’s on THI yet.
Also, the rise of ev's, ai and data centers isn't gonna make electricity cheaper around here. They want everything connected so they can turn it off and their whim or need.
I’ve got a little reasoning problem here. Three Mile Island, located on the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was shuttered in 2019 for economic reasons. It hascbeen the history of the liberals over the last few decades to try to throw money at private companies and make them work when they went broke. Same thing, different day. And you can bet Gates is not going to live anywhere near it.
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