Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors - eviltoast
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        1 year ago

        Raw material is usually a small fraction of the cost of refueling. I would also argue that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is a small blip in the lifetime of a reactor, ~80 years. Transient pricing will have a negligible effect on the LCOE.

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        1 year ago

        Not only that, imagine how thrilled nature and the environment will be at massive extraction efforts ripping apart landscapes to provide fuel for a method of generating power that is obsolete since at least three decades by now.

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          1 year ago

          Don’t need to, just down-blend from the available fuel used from weapons put out of commission as a result of disarmament treaties.

          Now, about those materials used to construct solar panels…