Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.
    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, there’s very little information in the article on what type of reactor they plan to use, but I hope they’re able to go with something like a molten salt reactor with a thorium fuel cycle.

        • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          62·
          2 years ago

          Fuck that. Take all the government grants and subsidies that would surely exist, and then use it for their own good/profit/power hoarding? No thanks.

          Putting billionaires in control of our nuclear power infrastructure after “building” them with mostly taxpayer money, when it’s all said and done, is an absolutely bone chilling thought. Terrifying.

      • bemenaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        The picture they show is from terrapower, the company Bill Gates funded, which is a thorium reactor. Thorium liquid salt reactors are still difficult because of the metallurgy. I believe they were supposed to fit the small modular concept though.

        • Anamana@feddit.deEnglish
          11·
          2 years ago

          Hm… invest into your companies cybersecurity before or after you get hacked?

          Companies don’t care enough about risks if they are not forced to account for them.

        • PlexSheep@feddit.deEnglish
          22·
          2 years ago

          Your logic is fallacious: the solution is not to build a nuclear reactor but seek an alternative.