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.