re: #48 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The pro-nuclear-power channel Decouple Media put up a discussion about how AI may be the driver to build more nuclear plants:

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The idea is that current electricity use does not spur new nuclear, but the need for bigger server farms coupled with the need for few emissions may guarantee the cash flow needed to build new nuclear.

Microsoft and Google, for example, could order billions of dollars of electricity, said billions being consumed by the nuclear power industry.

I just sort of roll my eyes at this. I consider “AI” to be more a net negative than a positive, as far as climate change is concerned.

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, could all locate their server farms in the sunniest parts of the planet and run off of solar.

But I guess if you want to place a server in Canada and you’re far away from hydro your option is nuclear?

The only way nuclear will help this is if Fusion turns from “10 years away” to reality.