A lot of power for AI and cloud datacenters.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20016368

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.

  • xantoxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I did get a chuckle out of this though:

    The facility will need to be fully restaffed

    Yeah, it’s been 45 years, I don’t think those folks were waiting around for the place to reopen.