Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoMicrosoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactorsfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square422fedilinkarrow-up11.13Karrow-down129
arrow-up11.1Karrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactorsfuturism.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square422fedilink
minus-squareDogyote@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·11 months agoYo better check your fuel prices: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/09/21/why-uranium-prices-are-soaring Plus imagine how expensive uranium will get once we start relying on nuclear. It’ll be the new oil.
minus-squareRichard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·11 months agoNot only that, imagine how thrilled nature and the environment will be at massive extraction efforts ripping apart landscapes to provide fuel for a method of generating power that is obsolete since at least three decades by now.
Yo better check your fuel prices: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/09/21/why-uranium-prices-are-soaring
Plus imagine how expensive uranium will get once we start relying on nuclear. It’ll be the new oil.
Not only that, imagine how thrilled nature and the environment will be at massive extraction efforts ripping apart landscapes to provide fuel for a method of generating power that is obsolete since at least three decades by now.