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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.
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    AI might be a fantastic tool to help fix the environment, though.

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      It will be used to drive more consumption.

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      We already use AI in climate change models. This is a large language model that honestly, we don’t need.

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      bold of you to assume microsoft is interested in that

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