Gregory's Server@jimray Personally I think if the AI bubble bursts soon but we get a massive nuclear power buildout because of it, that will be a silver lining. As long as the new nuclear generation isn’t as half-baked as the LLMs.
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@RandomDamage @MisuseCase @jimray No-one has built civilian nuclear power at the speed we can build hydroelectric plants, let alone wind or solar. Solar and battery makes any speed comparison ridiculous. And that's before considering scale - even NuScale weren't talking about a reactor in every home.  @moz @MisuseCase @jimray thought: what if they're just trying to signal that this isn't a fad and they'll be around long enough for the construction time of a nuclear plant? I mean, it's totally a fad, and I expect it to take a couple of companies out, but maybe this is a way to pretend otherwise  @RandomDamage @moz @jimray It’s probably a way to address concerns over how much electricity AI uses, since it has huge power demands. But not really “address,” since “we’ll install our own nuclear plants to power it all” is bullshit like everything else Sam Altman says. @RandomDamage @MisuseCase @jimray More likely it's the same virtue-signalling nonsense the far right in Australia are doing when they talk about it. Specifically, change nothing now while we talk about eventually building nuclear power plants. The "do nothing now" is what matters, both to them and to everyone else.  @RandomDamage @MisuseCase @jimray looks like nuclear is a total dead end now
Small reactor even more expensive than large, we need to look for something else. https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/engineering/small-reactors-dont-add-up/ |
@MisuseCase @jimray can't happen in the US, the lead time for a nuclear build is too long and the AI hypsters don't have enough pull to shorten it.
They'll end up running on solar+storage...