Tech giants harness nuclear energy to power AI | BBC News

Have none of these boffins seen The Terminator or The Matrix?

I guess she sleeps with her eyes open 0_0

A non-binary voice? 🤔

Science is not doing badly trying to remove all the IMs from IMPOSSIBILITIES
no matter our doubts and fears. I think that in the end, advancements in harnessing solar energy might be better.

A load of nonsense; this is fossil fuel disinformation. Nuclear fission reactors take decades to build. All this talk of 'small modular reactors' is pure lies - there are no commercially viable SMRs - these are just excuses and distractions. If AI, datacentres or anyone requires more power they need to build more renewables and more storage. That is the only way to deploy fast low carbon electricity at scale.

In 20 years, we won’t have governments running us, but companies. If we let them run rampant unregulated and with not paying tax, they gather power. They can dictate everything.

There you go ladies and gentlemen... Women don't build anything

21.Darkness in the depth of sea:(surah Noor or light 24,verse 40): science says, from sea surface level to (<900 meter depth) we can hardly see any colour.But more than 900 meter depth no colour is visible there is total darkness even man can not see his /her own hand there.If anyone injured and bleeding occur he/she can not see blood because red colour is not visible there.Last colour remain in sea is blue( penetrate about)750 meter depth of sea.That's why,the colour of sea is blue.

Sane, safe and soundly reassuring. Amazon transparent? You can’t even make a delivery complaint without committing a day

We’re fucked
Edit: we’ve fucked ourselves
… and everything else

Cart before the horse

Bitcoin mining is insane they are using real energy to produce virtual money

A.I. = psychopath.

When will you stop creating panic before studying the problem? Always the same!

We are so doomed. Imagine you have psychotic and paranoid tendencies and you start using a LLM. Its nightmare fuel

We've already allowed them to prioritize AI over people; everything else is simply a consequence.

We're told we need to consume less, we need to drive less polluting cars, we need to turn our thermostats down, we need to stop getting on planes.
Meanwhile AI's power needs over the next decade will be triple the UK's power consumption. Yesterday AI told me the football season has already finished. Fuck off.

we never getting gta 6 bro 😭 😭

So basically, we're going into another nuclear race, but instead of being between countries, it's between the big tech companies, and all of this being inside the AI race.

Why do they let that woman promote her billion dollar company on TV??

We as consumers should never feel pressured to go electric or to have solar powered houses and applications. If big tech is still going to power their ventures with non-renewables then let them carry on. It's on them to be responsible. Same with SpaceX's numerous launches - insane amounts of carbon + other greenhouse gases

I just hope There is a manual button to take over control if things go wrong.

What do critics even think of when they hear those news? I can't quite wrap my mind around it.

I mean, it's pretty simple: if you need ever more electricity AND you do care about mitigating emissions, then you surely would need to increase your power purchase output, be it from solar, wind, hydro or nuclear, among other clean power sources.

Nuclear isn't even the most significant investment those very companies are making regarding power purchase.

So, what's all the worry about? I understand that if you are against civilian nuclear power (for whatever reason) you will be frustrated to see nuclear power growth projections.

But why are people making it seem like providing electricity from a nuclear power plant to a data center facility would pose some kind of national security threat?

Does people imagine that this news is about AI operating the power plants? Or maybe that the AI will somehow now have the ability to produce and/or control nuclear weapons?

Seriously, it's such nonsense! Electrons, be it from wind turbines, solar panels or nuclear plants are all the same. It's not as though the AI will somehow be coupled to the operation of those said power plants.

You just know the title was written by a journo who never got a single credit for a STEM subject.

And yet you’re told to do your bit to look after the world.

AI is the biggest threat to humanity.

Excellent idea, link ai to Nuclear power stations - because ia has been cleared as having zero chance of being an existential threat to human life - so its totally safe to link ai to nuclear power

This entire presentation was awful.

This is actually really good news, there is now a political will or a motive to solve energy issues that should benefit everyone eventually from massive investment from these mega corporations, by the end of the decade I imagine huge breakthroughs in energy with ai assisting those developments.

Great idea! Combine one major public doomsday fear with another. Now all they need is to use the computing power for gain of function research to complete the trifecta😂

Small nuclear reactors > WindFarms.

so, we're just gonna let the billionaires and tech broligarchs to deploy portable nuclear reactors wherever they please?? what could possibly go wrong 🤷‍♂

well well well , now they want to uprate the power grids

Can someone send this to Bily Carson 🙏..I dont know how to reach him 🙏

Earth was once a power grid ..like a computer it all makes sense now 😮..the deluge set us bk ..but fast forward to 2024 ..we are right on track..

This sounds like a fantastic idea! AI ISN'T gonna solve all of our problems, but it will do a lot. Nuclear fission as an energy source will make AI a Carbon Positive business! It is the cleanest way we can produce energy. It is SAFE with Gen 3 & 4 plants. And places like France are doing AMAZING things to deal with waste. But it costs A LOT and takes decades of development. I believe Nuclear is the way to go for the planet imo. We can do it better!

bbc gave atom bomb to terminator

I stopped listening when she said “Putting the horse before the cart”

Climate change on all world.I still havent seen resignation of criminal Sweden Goverment!!!

They’ll destroy the planet to cut labor costs, plain and simple. Such grotesque wealth is a pathology on earth.

Why do we need to go, where we need to go?????? WHY

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AI is enemy of Mother Nature.

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AI is a great DISAPPOINTMENT..all it's used for is to hurt people and create misery..and yet money is wasted on it, when humans are starving to death.

The Terminator was a documentary

If you think there’s an energy problem now. Wait until you see how much energy an ever growing robotic workforce will consume.

For Tutatis sake!
We have not even chosen the next 007. Do we want to depend on a Homer Simpson to avoid that a Hank Scorpio succeeds in his world domination plan?
It is not a secret:
Most if not all the independent states which build nuclear plants do not do it just for the electric energy, but to get nuclear weapons. USA, Soviet Union, UK, France, Iran... Even Spain in the 1970s started a nuclear weapons program. Until they told Harry Kissinger "Look, daddy, I'm doing the same thing France did" and... Well, then the Spanish prime minister car was blown up to the roof of a building several storeys high. Casually very close to the US embassy. And then, nobody can imagine why, Spain cancelled the nuclear weapons program.
So...
Do "we the people" want that some Max Zorin, the CEO of Zorin Industries from Silicon Valley builds and owns a nuclear plant?
A nuclear plant and also X rockets able to launch "useful payloads" into orbit?
Isn't it too similar to the start of a nuclear weapons program?

Kiss your office job goodbye when AI comes in