gerrymcgovern, 22 days ago

"Microsoft, already one of the biggest polluters because of AI, saw its 2023 emissions grow 30% from 2020. Microsoft is desperately looking for cleaner and less polluting ways to power its AI data centres. For one of its biggest AI centres that it will be developing with OpenAI and invest $100 bn in, Microsoft plans to set up a dedicated nuclear power plant to power it."
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/microsoft-one-of-the-biggest-polluters-because-of-ai-saw-its-2023-emissions-grow-30-per-cent-from-2020-13771792.html

Saving our environment with nuclear power plants. Ok. Saving life by killing life. Ok.

jeaton, 22 days ago

@gerrymcgovern
Is this a good time to mention that the number one job of any CEO is to bullshit the public?

prefec2, 22 days ago

@gerrymcgovern Bill Gates - big fan of vendor lock in and cornering the market - loves nuclear power plants. He is - to some extent - an early version of a tech bro.

chargrille, 22 days ago

@gerrymcgovern Oh my god. Nuclear waste so we can cover the internet with AI waste. Great.

chargrille, 22 days ago

@gerrymcgovern
23% more water!!!

29% more emissions!!

In ONE YEAR??

This is the most insane increase in environmental damage in one year that I have seen in a long time.

If this were a power plant, we would be demanding EPA shut it down until pollution controls were in place. Same should happen with Microsoft.

larsmb, 22 days ago

@gerrymcgovern Ah but see, we can use AI to answer and solve just that very question, and will be well.

(It's a circus, a bad circus.)