[ExI] AI reviving USA nuclear power industry

[Keith Henson]

Correct on what going critical means in nuclear reactors.

"wannabe rogue AI"

An AI doesn't want anything unless humans program it into the AI.
There are times when anthropomorphizing leads us astray.

Keith

On Sat, Sep 21, 2024 at 9:31 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> When speaking of nuclear reactors, "critical" means "operating normally".  "Going critical" would not ordinarily be a threat.
>
> But nuclear plants still require fuel.  A wannabe rogue AI would be better served by one of those space-based data centers, coupled with a robotic lunar mining and manufacturing plant to replace worn-out solar panels and gradually expand the data center.
>
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2024 at 12:18 PM BillK via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>> Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to
>> fuel its voracious AI ambitions
>> By Anton Shilov, published 20 Sept 2024
>>
>> <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-inks-deal-to-restart-three-mile-island-nuclear-reactor-to-fuel-its-voracious-ai-ambitions>
>> Quote:
>> A lot of power for AI and cloud datacenters.
>> Modern AI data centers consume enormous amounts of power, and it looks
>> like they will get even more power-hungry in the coming years as
>> companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI strive towards
>> artificial general intelligence (AGI). Oracle has already outlined
>> plans to use nuclear power plants for its 1-gigawatt datacenters. It
>> looks like Microsoft plans to do the same as it just inked a deal to
>> restart a nuclear power plant to feed its data centers, reports
>> Bloomberg.
>> Constellation Energy will invest $1.6 billion to restart its Three
>> Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. The revived reactor will
>> provide clean electricity to Microsoft for 20 years, supporting the
>> tech giant's AI and cloud computing energy needs. This reactor had a
>> generating capacity of approximately 819 megawatts (MW) of
>> electricity, which is enough power for a small to medium-sized city
>> with hundreds of thousands of homes. The plant should be operational
>> by 2028, and it will serve Microsoft exclusively.
>> -----------------------
>>
>> So, every AGI will be looking after its own nuclear power station.
>> These AGIs wouldn't ever threaten to make their power stations go
>> critical, if humans don't behave, would they?
>> No, of course not. Stop worrying!
>>
>> BillK
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