<div dir="ltr">When speaking of nuclear reactors, "critical" means "operating normally". "Going critical" would not ordinarily be a threat.<div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 21, 2024 at 12:18 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to<br>
fuel its voracious AI ambitions<br>
By Anton Shilov, published 20 Sept 2024<br>
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<<a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-inks-deal-to-restart-three-mile-island-nuclear-reactor-to-fuel-its-voracious-ai-ambitions" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-inks-deal-to-restart-three-mile-island-nuclear-reactor-to-fuel-its-voracious-ai-ambitions</a>><br>
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A lot of power for AI and cloud datacenters.<br>
Modern AI data centers consume enormous amounts of power, and it looks<br>
like they will get even more power-hungry in the coming years as<br>
companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI strive towards<br>
artificial general intelligence (AGI). Oracle has already outlined<br>
plans to use nuclear power plants for its 1-gigawatt datacenters. It<br>
looks like Microsoft plans to do the same as it just inked a deal to<br>
restart a nuclear power plant to feed its data centers, reports<br>
Bloomberg.<br>
Constellation Energy will invest $1.6 billion to restart its Three<br>
Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. The revived reactor will<br>
provide clean electricity to Microsoft for 20 years, supporting the<br>
tech giant's AI and cloud computing energy needs. This reactor had a<br>
generating capacity of approximately 819 megawatts (MW) of<br>
electricity, which is enough power for a small to medium-sized city<br>
with hundreds of thousands of homes. The plant should be operational<br>
by 2028, and it will serve Microsoft exclusively.<br>
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So, every AGI will be looking after its own nuclear power station.<br>
These AGIs wouldn't ever threaten to make their power stations go<br>
critical, if humans don't behave, would they?<br>
No, of course not. Stop worrying!<br>
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BillK<br>
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