Hyperscalers have moved in the same direction, with Meta having signed deals for more than 6GW of nuclear power to supply its upcoming data centers, and one firm repurposing retired U.S. Navy reactors for an AI site in Tennessee. Those projects will take years to deliver, with recommissioned nuclear plants and the earliest small modular reactors not expected online until 2028 or later, leaving power availability as a near-term limitation on the seemingly unstoppable AI build-out.
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80251 How much of that power used by AI ends up heating up the planet? Isn't climate change an issue anymore? Windmills and solar certainly won't be providing enough power for AI plants/DCs. Reply
COLGeek 80251 said: How much of that power used by AI ends up heating up the planet? Isn't climate change an issue anymore? Windmills and solar certainly won't be providing enough power for AI plants/DCs. …and then there were human batteries. Reply
SomeoneElse23 80251 said: How much of that power used by AI ends up heating up the planet? Isn't climate change an issue anymore? Windmills and solar certainly won't be providing enough power for AI plants/DCs. "climate change" is/was either 1) not real, just a tool for manipulation or 2) they didn't really care, they just parroted it to look good. In today's misinformation age, it's up to you to figure out which is true. Reply
COLGeek No political debates on climate change, please, else this topic will end abruptly (like a power outage). Reply
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