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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Let’s bring the haunted nuclear reactor back online so copilot can hallucinate a little more https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/20/microsoft-three-mile-island-nuclear-constellation/

[–] mii@awful.systems 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

[…] the tech giant would buy 100 percent of its power for 20 years.

I want them to fucking choke on this deal when the bubble bursts.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

I live like 15mi from there, I would prefer the containment bubble to stay intact. But the tech bubble is welcome to go blow up any moment

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

How the heck have people become so... blasé about climate change?? It is wild to me. If we're restarting nuclear reactors, with everything that entails, it should be with the goal of shutting down gas or coal power. Not to do more unsustainable garbage on top of all the existing unsustainable garbage.

Feels like the world's just given up sometimes, even though it's not quite too late.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Yea, I'm glad a nuclear plant is being restored but it sucks that it's because of fucking plagi-o-matic.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

"to give you more AI slop we have to restart TMI" is going to do wonders for the public's opinion of Big Tech

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

God almighty, the hubris to think that they'll this thing will be ready to go before the end of the decade. Who's going to be the prime contractor, I wonder? Bechtel?

Also, this gem inserted at the end as if it's nothing...I'm all for fusion research, but this is not happening by 2028. Someone needs to get the hook for Satya at this point, he's just lighting money on fire.

Microsoft is also pursuing power from nuclear fusion, a potentially abundant, cheap and clean form of electricity that scientists have been trying to develop for decades — and most say is still a decade or more away from generating electricity. Microsoft has signed a contract to purchase fusion energy from a start-up that claims it can deliver it by 2028.