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Inside the Audacious Plan to Reopen Three Mile Island’s Nuclear Plant
Within a few years, the most advanced AI models are projected to need five gigawatts of ... and whether a restart could ...
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Opinion - When you combine AI and nuclear power, the results can be catastrophic
The recent news that Microsoft has made a deal to restart the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant to run its AI data ...
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Rainwater Could Help Satisfy AI’s Water Demands
A few dozen ChatGPT queries cost a bottle’s worth of water. Tech firms should consider simpler solutions, like harvesting ...
Feeding AI’s appetite: Who pays the price for power-hungry data centers?
With the grid facing strain and more energy-hungry giants sitting down at the table, ensuring fair contribution isn’t just ...
A rare bee species reportedly put an end to Meta's plans for a nuclear-powered AI data center
Meta's plans for an AI data center running on nuclear power were complicated partly by the discovery of a rare bee species ...
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Rainwater harvesting could solve AI data centers’ rising water demands
Data centers use a lot of computational power, requiring a steady supply of water to cool the systems, which can be solved by ...
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AI’s appetite for electric power fuels interest in nuclear option
Anna Erickson of Georgia Tech explains why the public and private sectors are investing in reactor technology and restarting retired plants. The system, though, still faces cost, safety and regulatory ...
Rare bees kill Meta’s nuclear-powered AI data center plans
Environmental regulators reportedly quashed Mark Zuckerberg’s nuclear plant partnership meant to help power Meta’s ongoing artificial intelligence projects. Details remain scarce, but the main reason ...
Endangered bees stop Meta’s plan for nuclear-powered AI data center
Plans by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to build an AI data center in the US that runs on nuclear power were thwarted in part because ...