We’re considering letting Oracle, Meta, and Microsoft (that I know of) reactivate or otherwise make use of nuclear power plants to power their AI ambitions. How long before that turns into owning and operating nuclear reactors in house? Now I’m not of the opinion that nuclear power is inherently unsafe but if I had to pick my worst case scenario of implementation it may well be letting big tech run a facility like that.
On the other hand, I see first hand on a daily basis the kind of power consumption we’re talking about putting to use for AI and that’s a huge fucking problem if you care about the environment at all. I don’t know what the right answer is. All I can say is I hope we invent scalable fusion reactors, or some other way to harness vast amounts of energy, very quickly. Otherwise this is not going to end well.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Great, let’s increase pollution along with energy costs for the average person so people can have “advanced” predictive text algorithms and a new world of fap material. Literally, the worst “technology” since coal burning power plants.
sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And let’s not forget the “game-changing” technology that those coal plants are burning for, too: shitcoins.
krashmo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s pretty great tech if you employ a lot of people whose only job is to handle customer complaints and you don’t really care if those complaints are handled well or not.