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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

3 years ago by Flying Squid to c/technology

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Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.
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sixCats 49 points 3 years ago

This seems kind of ideal though, computers provide a near constant load (relatively speaking) that combines very well with nuclear energy.

Perhaps we should be asking why we haven’t already been doing this for the past decade?

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Acters 5 points 3 years ago

Because it costs less money to push the cost to for taxpayers to subsidize it than owning it

Correction

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DoomBot5 12 points 3 years ago

Those data centers are paying for their electrical usage. Economies of scale just make it more favorable for them over building their own power generation (solar/wind excluded).

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guacupado 6 points 3 years ago

Tell me you know nothing about data centers without telling me.

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