Dan York on Nostr: Google joins Microsoft and Amazon in buying contracts for #nuclear power in order to ...
Google joins Microsoft and Amazon in buying contracts for #nuclear power in order to power their data centers (largely for #ai applications).
Having spent a lot of my life living in southern New Hampshire in the vicinity of the Seabrook nuclear plant, I’m of mixed minds. Yes, it reduces #carbon emissions, but we still have the waste.
At least Google is buying from *new* reactors that will be built much more safely than the older reactors like TMI.
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/google-nuclear-power-artificial-intelligence-87966624
#climate #energy
Having spent a lot of my life living in southern New Hampshire in the vicinity of the Seabrook nuclear plant, I’m of mixed minds. Yes, it reduces #carbon emissions, but we still have the waste.
At least Google is buying from *new* reactors that will be built much more safely than the older reactors like TMI.
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/google-nuclear-power-artificial-intelligence-87966624
#climate #energy