TechTakes @awful.systems David Gerard @awful.systems 3mo ago

Three Mile Island nuclear plant is restarting to power AI for Microsoft

pivot-to-ai.com Three Mile Island nuclear plant is restarting to power AI for Microsoft

Good news, everyone! The Three Mile Island power plant, site of the worst nuclear disaster in US history, is being restarted to power AI for Microsoft! [Press release; Washington Post, archive; Blo…

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Interesting as old nuclear plants are always said to be expensive to operate due to maintenance and old technology issues. Microsoft must really be in a bind to go for an expensive and uncertain supply.
- Advanced bayesian estimations show that the risks of a nuclear plant that is not yet operational are very low. And the chance that they will still be employed at microsoft (after the bubble pops) by 2028 is exceedingly low, reducing effective risk significantly !
  
  I was thinking of the economics as opposed to the safety aspects. Seems an expensive option.
- I assume this is pr to distract from their increasing use of fossil fuels
  
  Yeah but Three Mile Island? Seriously?
  
  Now it's possible that the MSFT press release gave it a more anodyne name and the press sussed out where it was, but still.
“We’re restarting the Three Mile island reactor and renaming it! [pause for effect] to Copilot!”
And instead of replacing fossil fuels, we're using it to power the AI pet projects of billionaires...
I hear they actually are planning to build a new campus there. They think they’ll create supersmart mutants to build their next gen AIs
Yeah, this is gonna turn out well. What could possibly go wrong connecting an AI to a nuclear reactor in a populated area?
- do tell
  
  Terminator 2 but with Fallout 2 style super mutants.
This feels like the start of an Outer Limits episode.

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