It bears mentioning that their interest in new electrical generating capacity is to power data centers and AI, not to help with the societal transition to cleaner energy. AI is remarkably energy intensive. It takes a ton of juice to build and train a model, and each search query to AI uses 10x the power of a standard google search.
Hopefully, their quest for power may lead to advances in modular reactor design that might be deployed for public benefit instead of corporate profit.
Wagyu_Trucker on
SMRs are like fusion – right around the corner for decades.
Phalex on
SMRs advantage is mass production. If 300 different companies try to make theese, the advantage is gone.
silent2k on
500 Million is a PR stunt not RnD.
upyoars on
what is Amazon going to do with advanced large scale AI that needs to be powered by nuclear reactors? track consumer behavior patterns for their own financial gain? that sounds like we’re entering a more dystopian world
SgtBaxter on
Hopefully we’ll get them offered as a prime day discount.
minus_minus on
I will be stunned if the AI boom actually makes economies of scale a reality for nuclear power.Â
Master_Engineering_9 on
So far the pay for all these nuke jobs is pretty meh
thatmikeguy on
Amazon, Google, and MS all at the same time realized not enough power, at the same time someone may break how utilities work in the US.
Macshlong on
Here we go, fully private power is the first step.
kamandi on
This is how we get terrorists with nukes.
rainkloud on
This is going to tie up a lot of smart people doing a dumb thing. These things are expensive, untested and inefficient and you still have nuclear waste you have to deal with and uranium to mine.
Better to keep investing in improvements to renewables.
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I’m glad to see we’re re-investing in nuclear.
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It bears mentioning that their interest in new electrical generating capacity is to power data centers and AI, not to help with the societal transition to cleaner energy. AI is remarkably energy intensive. It takes a ton of juice to build and train a model, and each search query to AI uses 10x the power of a standard google search.
Hopefully, their quest for power may lead to advances in modular reactor design that might be deployed for public benefit instead of corporate profit.
SMRs are like fusion – right around the corner for decades.
SMRs advantage is mass production. If 300 different companies try to make theese, the advantage is gone.
500 Million is a PR stunt not RnD.
what is Amazon going to do with advanced large scale AI that needs to be powered by nuclear reactors? track consumer behavior patterns for their own financial gain? that sounds like we’re entering a more dystopian world
Hopefully we’ll get them offered as a prime day discount.
I will be stunned if the AI boom actually makes economies of scale a reality for nuclear power.Â
So far the pay for all these nuke jobs is pretty meh
Amazon, Google, and MS all at the same time realized not enough power, at the same time someone may break how utilities work in the US.
Here we go, fully private power is the first step.
This is how we get terrorists with nukes.
This is going to tie up a lot of smart people doing a dumb thing. These things are expensive, untested and inefficient and you still have nuclear waste you have to deal with and uranium to mine.
Better to keep investing in improvements to renewables.
US giving China easy targets for the WW3 lol
All this so that AI can hallucinate on the cheap.
I miss when they just sold books.