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.

  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    So I guess if they just replaced the control system with a modern computer that would fix most of the problems

    Introducing new Clippy For Reactors.