“Amazon buys nuclear-powered data centre from Talen - Nuclear Engineering International”
The other big customer of that nuke-powered data centre? A crypto miner.
Basically, “AI” and crypto are sucking up capacity that could have been used to wean society off carbon fuels
We’re so screwed. https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsamazon-buys-nuclear-powered-data-centre-from-talen-11597723?lid=uq39cr58t2jt
Baldur Bjarnason /
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2024-03-18 12:23:00
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