Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!epsilon3.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jay E. Morris" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Things I never thought would appear Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:42:15 -0500 Organization: very little if any Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 04:42:15 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: epsilon3.eternal-september.org; posting-host="0bc73eec74da8599a5efbde11b869b4a"; logging-data="3547408"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/DYOq9imAIZbHHS50reO7crK4EUXJJoik=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:eyRH2cRjcUZDYOCTP5yIx9uP6HY= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 241010-2, 10/10/2024), Outbound message In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2254 On 10/10/2024 9:31 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote: > Joy Beeson wrote: >> A computer farm that occupies an entire building and has its own >> nuclear generator. > I've never heard of a computer with its own nuclear generator (not > counting space probes powered by RTGs). But there's nothing new about > computers filling a building and consuming vast amounts of electricity. Microsoft wants Three Mile Island to fuel its AI power needs / Microsoft has signed a 20-year deal to exclusively access 835 megawatts of energy from a nuclear plant. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/20/24249770/microsoft-three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-deal-ai-data-centers Oracle considers nuclear energy to power its AI The tech company races to harness nuclear power for its data centers, as AI's insatiable energy demands surge; while new technologies emerge to meet this need, nuclear energy's risks and rewards create an unsettling modern tale https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/rjkyhtepc