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Google, Amazon buy nonexistent mini nuclear reactors for AI data centers (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 22 hours ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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BRING IT ON NITPICKY NUKE NERDS

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 20 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If these nuclear plants manage to come to fruition, it'll be the sole miniscule silver lining of the bubble. Considering its AI, though, I expect they'll probably suffer some kind of horrific Chernobyl-grade accident which kills nuclear power for good, because we can't have nice things when there's AI involved.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 17 hours ago

even if you're ardently pro-nuclear, SMRs are just a failure purely on the economics and always have been. And that's before wind/solar/battery made them just obsolete. So SMRs are the perfect tech when you don't want to do anything useful.