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Google is going nuclear for AI

A first-of-its-kind energy deal will see Google buy nuclear power plants to power its AI.
By Matthews Martins on 
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  1. I’m confused why invest into nuclear if fission/fusion reactors are better worth time being studied to us?

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  2. And don’t forget Microsoft is firing up a reactor at Three Mile Island.

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  3. So they connect Skynet to a nuclear power plant.

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  4. Google better have the insurance for full replacement coverage if anything goes wrong and people die or property damages. Put a value on a life that is not basically nothing as Corporations have in the past. a nuclear reactor meltdown should break google financially.

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    1. what about all the lives ruined by other energy sources, especially coal.

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  5. And so it begins, the fight for energy between AI and humans. Guess who’s gonna win? Funny how computers don’t care about nuclear radiation- almost like they’d prefer it as an easy way of eliminating all the humans.

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  6. Nuclear is cool for AI, but not power for the People only Corps?

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  7. Ugh nuclear. That is my only thought

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  8. So training your AI is an ecological crime. Destroying it is free

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  9. That's a rather stupid idea for someone who pretends working in intelligence ...

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  10. No one is asking for it

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  11. How it always starts 😂
    https://media1.tenor.co/m/D5jfuvYJX6gAAAAd/tyrminator-tyr.gif?

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  12. Between this and EV's looks like global warming just went through the ceiling!

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  13. Why not water wheels?

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  14. Make all automatic done fast thinking don’t waste time say and done simple

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  15. Watts is not a unit of energy

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    1. it's a measurement of energy transfer over time. Wouldn't it be reasonable to measure it in terms that your average Joe could understand? A kW/h is a pretty standard measurement.

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    2. but there is some real ambiguity here—that reactor is enough to power an EV for 2 million miles if it runs for what time frame? 5 minutes? A month? A year?

      To get from power to energy you have to multiply by time and there’s no indication of what the time is here

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    3. looks like it takes about 600MWh to drive an EV 2 million miles, so they probably mean it can generate that much power every hour—but this wasn’t at all clear!

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  16. You mean spyware. That’s all google garbage is.

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  17. Cyberdyne systems here comes Skynet lol

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  18. Good! This is the way.

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  19. I thought that AI would be more into clean renewable energy instead of nuclear radiation and toxic waste. 😞

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    1. shows how little you know about nuclear energy

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    2. tell me all about nuclear energy then.

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    3. how about you try to educate yourselve ? You made it to Facebook, now try Google.

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    4. why would I go to Google for their the ones who want to pollute the world with more radioactive nuclear waste?

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    5. I hold Google up to better standards for sustainability. Renewable energy that doesn't pollute. Maybe A.i. can think of something new. Windmills solar panels tidal wave generators volcanic reactors etc..

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    6. How about them Google guys and gals use Static Electricity? They can walk on carpets with their slippers and pj's and charge up them AI Robotic humanoids.

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  20. just buy a nice geiger muller counter

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  21. they'll really have to stop antagonizing for war now. everything being set up so precariously close to nuclear power plants... it's not a good time to be war-mongering WHATsoEVER

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    1. are you trying to scam this poor guy who is dumb enough to believe that the current problem in our country is because of the Republicans? Don’t pick on people that stupid. That is just unkind.

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    2. Exactly. If I am going to be scammed by a scammer, I want them to be at least an intelligent scammer. If you are trying to scam me and you can’t figure out how to send a friend request? Sorry you are not smart enough for me to waste even social media time with.

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  22. Really? They need that to power AI? Sounds like corporate-speak BS to me. I've heard that same story by other people such as those behind crypto. It was BS then, it's BS now. Corporations are working really hard to make themselves look bigger, powerful and the dominating force in our society. Enough is enough.

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  23. A Nuke plant that will only profit Google and the public thinks it is to put Bunny Ears on your face when you chat on the cellphone. If the AI is smart why does it need so much power. A human only needs a few cabbages a day and this bunch of greed barons are going nuclear. That aint right and everyone knows it and no on cares. Dystopia has arrived. I wonder if it is hurricane, tornado and earth quake proof. We will let the defense department worry about other problems like drones and missiles.

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  24. people start fires in grocery stores to walk out with stolen good and we cant protect the stores what makes us think we can pretect these from teror

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  25. Are you woke yet??

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  26. The apparent contradiction between the Biden-Harris administration's efforts to reduce energy consumption and AI's increasing energy demands is indeed intriguing. On one hand, the administration is pushing for a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035 and reducing greenhouse gas emissions ¹. On the other hand, AI systems require significant amounts of energy to operate, which seems to contradict these goals.

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  27. https://media1.tenor.co/m/D5jfuvYJX6gAAAAC/tyrminator-tyr.gif?

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  28. https://www.facebook.com/NuclearEnergyInstitute

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  29. What could possibly go wrong 🥴🤖🏴‍☠️🖕🏻

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  30. well, there is the future folks. AI gets brand new clean forever energy and us filthy humans get to burn rocks to survive.

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    1. Don’t burn all your rocks. You’re going to need something to eat

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  31. Sounds like the perfect foundation for an evil lair. 😋

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  32. Good for Google…

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  33. Oh right this is "Google" doing this and not "Gemini."

    See you guys on the other side of the robot wars.

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  34. 2030 for the first, 2035 for the rest.

    Good thing they're not going the solar farm (with battery) route. They could do that much more quickly, and we wouldn't want that.

    Solar farms generally take eight to eighteen months to complete, from planning to implementation.

    https://uslightenergy.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-build-a-solar-farm/

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  35. Souring nuclear might be one of the best things these companies have done for the world

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  36. Hopefully to desalinate water, too.

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  37. They will soon have all new security standards for consideration; NERC CIP that are concerning especially with the cloud companies history of data security.

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  38. You have some Bitcoin miners too like Migi I believe that have nuclear power contracts that make them buyout targets for just turning them into data centers.

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  39. So we can prevent the machines from using us as a power source like in matrix

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  40. Do thorium small reactors scattered across USA. Move away from Uranium and Plutonium fissile materials.

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  41. how much percentage of nuclear energy is turned to electricity? and anyway - computing energy converts mostly to heat too. So more & more global heating is planned ... (there was recently an article that advanced green civilizations will have 'heat-death' So send the computing (and manufacturing) to space...

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    1. The earth isn’t heating up because human beings are literally producing heat, it’s heating up because of all the pollution fucking the atmosphere. All these greenhouse gases are building up to such a degree that the earth basically just can’t cool off because the atmosphere itself is holding onto way more heat than it should be.

      Educational materials
      https://youtu.be/0SYpUSjSgFg?si=EFTIXcIZdVuLy1X_

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  42. 500MW. Maybe in 10 year. Here's some context:
    This year the US will add 70,000MW of renewable capacity & storage. That's 191MW per day. Nuclear is completely insignificant. Took nuke 65yrs to build 380GW.
    Global solar now adds that much new capacity every 7 months.

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    1. Except when the sun doesn't shine for days. We need a robust mix of geothermal, Hydro, Wave action, Solar, wind, traditional fossil fuel peaking and Nuclear. Cant wait for all the Greens to protest a nearby Nuke plant while wind turbines are killing birds and geothermal wells are causing tremors. California uses the most energy and keeps shutting down power plants and hydro projects. hopefully the technology will help solve this. Unfortunately sanity does not seem to be in short supply.

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  43. To little information confuses the masses, "Unlike traditional reactors, which use water, the Kairos reactors use a molten-salt cooling system to transport heat into a steam turbine that then generates power." - now, what would the normal person think of that statement if they do not know of how the system(s) work????
    Also, I noticed they named the outfit; but they did not name of where that company is quartered at nor did they even mention that Rolls Royce has been producing a much more robust unit that takes up a smaller footprint and is much more safe for the surrounding communities when it comes to the standards of construction.
    A 5,000-8,500 Meg Unit is the same size as a large conex box that is used in shipping and the accompanying 'bus bar' for distribution is also the size of a large shipping container - refinements are still being made to ensure long-term safety in case of external harsh environments.
    They have been refining these units for over two years now, while Kairos is still beginning a 'learning curve' - whom would you trust?

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  44. Yeah abundant-cheap-clean-affordable energy to the populace isn't reason enough to have done this decades ago! But low and behold Google or Gates (The Go Greenies) somehow sidestep the bureaucratic BS and regulations with ease! Cheap endless energy for 2 of the richest entities on the planet all in the name of AI which in the end equates to nothing more than quest for power and control over us mere peasants.

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  45. So giant corporations are all going nuclear but the government won't approve new permits for residential nuclear plants? Funny how that works. Nuclear is the way forward, not the fake "green energy" BS. You know who I know climate change isn't a real threat? Neither the activists nor governments pushing the CC agenda support nuclear energy, the BEST way to reduce carbon emissions while maintaining quality of life. We could have small nuclear plants, like the ones Google is looking to acquire, all over the nation providing reliable, around the clock energy.


    Also interesting that we have billions upon billions to send to other countries to fund wars and warlords, but we won't spend any money on bringing our infrastructure up-to-date. It's almost like there's been a policy of America Last for decades. It's time that get's reversed, doesn't matter which party it is, BOTH parties should put Americans first!

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  46. I worked for them in 2007... they were laying the ground work for this back then.

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  47. In Bill Gates case it's your tax $ footing over half the cost through subsidies in the Build Back Broke Bill signed by Bumbles being used to pay for nuclear power you'll never ever have access to!!!

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  48. WOW! I'd have thought Google would've committed to solar or wind with unicorn battery storage.

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  49. Hopefully this will discourage Russia, Iran & N Korea from using Nuclear weapons.

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  50. nuclear is the way to go for optimum power

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  51. Corporate America has never seen Terminator or Matrix and it truly shows.

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  52. So a company which forces everything to be green, sustainable, etc... buys a nuclear powerplant to power its systems????

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  53. Hippy company google sees the writing on the wall and goes nuclear. Will reGreta be arrested at the HQ next?

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  54. what wrong with powering them with Hydrogen cells, instead of nuclear radiation to kill us

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  55. Well that's one of the most disgusting headlines I've seen in the month of October so far. Yeeesh.

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  56. i take it that nuclear is a good thing again? kinda like the paper to plastic then back to paper?

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  57. where is are the personnell going to come from as a NN the pipeline will ned to be increased and who is going to permit this the DOE and NRC will have a field day with MIT grads telling NN how to produce power

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  58. Fits in a dumpster?

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  59. They should use only solar power

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  60. this is not a good thing...bill gates wants his own power supply

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  61. We're living in the prequel to "The Terminator".

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