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Tech firms increasingly look to nuclear power for data center. (www.voanews.com)
submitted 13 hours ago by TheOne@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

This seems... idk, ideal? Lets use our cleanest & most energy dense means of power generation for our most frivolously expanding waste of energy. Unless we give microsoft authority over the DOE, which we aren't (maybe IBM tho, they seem like they can be trusted...), I'm not really seeing a downside to this.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

IBM can be trusted, lol how easily history forgets.

  1. Involvement with Nazi Germany: During the 1930s and early 1940s.

  2. Apartheid-era South Africa

  3. Antitrust issues, In the 1970s, IBM was the subject of a major antitrust lawsuit by the U.S. government.

  4. disposal of hazardous waste from manufacturing facilities.

  5. outsourcing of jobs to other countries.

  6. IBM has faced multiple lawsuits and investigations for age discrimination.

  7. lobbying for government surveillance .​

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Congrats, you got the joke!

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Ideal would be them not reversing a decade of energy savings in the name of AI, but yeah, if they're going to do that anyway then Nuclear is one of the better options.

[–] takeda@lemmy.world -3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Couldn't that power be used to take control over Bitcoin chain?

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Tbh we probably already have that. Five Eyes is wildly held to control 50% of the TOR nodes, bitcoin cant be that much less of a priority.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

no. safety of bitcoin is based on cryptography, not lack of electrical power. that would be most bizarre case of security through obscurity.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago

They probably meant mining.

[–] someacnt_@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

So I missed out on US nuclear stock? Damn