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Three Mile Island nuclear plant set for restart on Microsoft AI power deal (www.reuters.com)
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[โ€“] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't really matter whether it's LLMs. There are limits to the value of creating an increasing amount of new hardware to do any particular math, but once you have the hardware it's pretty easy to find applications for the electricity to pay for itself.

There are countless spaces that will benefit from as much math as we can give them for a long time.

[โ€“] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

That's what happened for Personal Computers because most people could own one. Microsoft is trying to relive their PC highlights by going all in on nuclear powered mainframes.