Massive Energy Needs of AI & Cryptocurrencies Lead Amazon, Google & Microsoft to Embrace Nuclear Power
Massive Energy Needs of AI & Cryptocurrencies Lead Amazon, Google & Microsoft to Embrace Nuclear Power
Tech companies are turning to nuclear to fulfill the skyrocketing energy needs of artificial intelligence, with major corporations like Amazon, Google and Microsoft announcing plans to invest in nuclear power. But the speed at which energy needs are growing may not align with the construction or rev...
November 19, 2024
And they are surely paying for the thousands of years of waste storage necessary?
When a radioactive rock is stored in a cave somewhere instead of pumping the atmosphere full of CO2: 🤬🤬🤬
When a radioactive roch is stored in a cave somewhere instead of stopping to produce crypto currencies: 🤬🤬🤬
At least co2 doesn't shoot at me when i get too close /joke
Wouldn't it be an obvious part of the price they will pay for the electricity? The electricity producer or whatever intermediate in charge of the waste, will bill its work for waste storage, and it will end up on the bill of the energy consumer. What am I missing?
You're missing that no one ever invested in nuclear if they didn't expect to socialize storage cost. The premise is completely absurd too — you can't keep anything safe for over 100k years. There's no way to ensure that people won't dig up rocks, even on a 500-year horizon.
The entire history of humanity is only 300k years long, and our languages as well as our societal systems of organization are much younger.
over half a century of fear mongering from the nuclear industry itself to upsell safety systems
Can they embrace the uranium directly?
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