Oddbean new post about login | logout Microsoft is going nuclear — report https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-plan-to-use-nuclear-energy-power-ai-data-centers-2023-9
@6211bb94 this world is so fucked.
@6211bb94 is there just a steno pool over there at Business Insider? No reporters on staff? Not a single word of actual reporting this that piece. Not a single question on…(for starters): - what microrreactors? (No such devices exist currently outside of demo projects in China and Russia apparently) - where will these be built? And what’s the approval process? It takes well over a decade to get approvals to start such a project in most states. - where will the water come from? …etc…