• cron@feddit.org
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    17 days ago

    I don’t really get why datacenters want more nuclear power. Hinkley Point C is now under construction for 8 years and will take at least 6 more years. By then, the whole current AI hype will long have flattened off.

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      17 days ago

      Because demanding more nuclear power is free and feeds into the hype train.

      Are they going to sign a contract committing to future energy use at a particular rate, so that we can build new power stations? Of course not, they don’t believe the AI hype that much.

      But they will pretend they really need it.