Great, so when they abandon the nuclear project in 18mths who will maintain them?
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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They are planning to buy or maybe just electricity from a new reactor type, which has never been built, starting 2030, when conventional nuclear power plants, with known technology take twice as long to built.
So if they stop the project in 18months, it has just been a waste of money.
They are planning to buy
So far so good
or maybe just electricity
Uh oh
Who had Atompunk on their 2024 Bingo card?
I have no issue with the safety of nuclear power plants, however: fissile material is no more renewable than fossil fuels even if it's much greener. Also, in terms of more localized ecological damage, uranium mining is a disaster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_and_the_Navajo_people
Maybe Google should focus on building its plants near geothermal hotspots instead if it's forced to suck up vast amounts of power for AI no one wants.
Boy are they gonna look stupid when they realize that no one outside their little bubble has a use for AI.
It’s not even close to ready for launch and why are we wasting energy on it?
Actually this going to be great news when the AI Bust happens because we'll still have more clean power and we won't be wasting it on stupid bullshit.
immediately turns AI datacenters into Bitcoin mining centers
Bitcoin is dead it's all about digital pogs now
because idiots like me who have no marketable skills can use it to fool ourselves into thinking we can do code/art/literature/etc.
Hey don't be so hard on yourself
You can also use it to fool the rubes around you
sadly, I have a moral compass. I'm not sure where I put the damn thing, but I have one.
Oh damn
I guess you're normal
actually this (yes, I'm replying to myself). I'm an idiot with no marketable skills. I put boxes on shelves for a living. I want to be an artist, a musician, a programmer, an author. I am so bad at all of these, and between having a full time job, a significant other, and several neglected hobbies, I don't have time to learn to get better at something I suck at. So I cheat. If I want art done, I could commission a real artist, or for the cost of one image I could pay for dalle and have as many images as I want (sure, none of them will be quite what I want but they'll all be at least good). I could hire a programmer, or I could have chatgpt whip up a script for me since I'm already paying for it anyway since I want access to dalle for my art stuff. Since I have chatgpt anyway, I might as well use it to help flesh out my lore for the book I'll never write. I haven't found a good solution for music.
I have in my brain a vision for a thing that is so fucking cool (to me), and nobody else can see it. I need to get it out of my brain, and the only way to do that is to actualize it into reality. I don't have the skills necessary to do it myself, and I don't have the money to convince anyone else to help me do it. generative AI is the only way I'm going to be able to make this work. Sure, I wish that the creators of the content that were stolen from to train the ai's were fairly compensated. I'd be ok with my chatgpt subscription cost going up a few dollars if that meant real living artists got paid, I'm poor but I'm not broke.
These are the opinions of an idiot with no marketable skills.
These are the opinions of an idiot with no marketable skills.
Certainly doesn't sound like an idiot with no marketable skills to me. You're coming up with creative ideas and finding ways to try to prove them out in disciplines that you aren't terribly familiar with. You're really selling yourself way too short here and should be A LOT more compassionate towards you.
Really, it sounds like you are in a similar place to Product Management.
The way that you are approaching things is about diametrically opposite to the sort of problematic behavior that the corpos using LLMs to bludgeon labor are participating in.
Makes sense. Sometimes only once out into reality then only we'll know if it is a great idea, or not. But it doesn't hurt to have the tools to try. Those who want really high quality stuffs can go to the humans (and pay them good money) to make it even better.
If I find any degree of success, then absolutely I will hire real humans to help me with my vision.
I wish you the best of luck with your endeavours!
checks notes Shareholders?!
AI seems perfect for renewables load balancing. Got extra power to burn because it is windy at night? Train your models
AI power cost has quickly outscaled increases in power production. AI Datacenters alone are projected to consume more power than Japan sooner than 2030.
For some reason this doesn't feel like good news.
Any nuclear adoption is good news. This WILL help destigmatize them and help reduce cost by production at scale. Overall, while it's extremely questionable, depending on how many companies get on board it could be net positive
Except nuclear does not scale, especially not downward. Because any safety measures that have become standard, are required also on the smaller reactors. Except there, they cost relatively more per kWh output when compared to large plants.
I don’t really see this going to work, renewables are continuing to become cheaper and cheaper, and do scale.
But, I’d like to be pleasantly surprised.
This WILL help destigmatize them and help reduce cost by production at scale.
I'm not saying this won't have any benefits. I'm saying that I don't trust Google or the AI craze much, let alone huge corporations in general.
So I'm worried that there might be unforeseen fuckups or "savings procedures" or other ways of squeezing out profit until something breaks.
And those fuckups can easily outweigh the benefits.
If we had good governments and reliable regulation, this would be absolutely thrilling. But we don't, do we?
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Nuclear has never been profitable without massive government subsidies and guarantees, and ~~Google~~ Kairos too will either manage to collect those or lose money.
It’s unclear how Google and Kairos set up the deal — whether the former is providing direct funding or if it just promised to buy the power that the latter generates when its reactors are up and running. Nevertheless, Kairos has already passed several milestones, making it one of the more promising startups in the field of nuclear energy.
I guarantee you, they are shouldering on none of the risk (like the Chinese and French at Hinkley Point), and this startup will be going down.
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After they decide to abandon their AI project can we use them for something meaningful?
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Lol, now just let AI manage the reactors, then give it access to manufacturing tech and we have every machine takeover scenario ever.
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