Microsoft’s plan to re-open Three Mile Island for AI energy demand.
AI is driving demand for nuclear.
Sounds like some AI nightmare to me.
Bots like you will become more sophisticated.
Wow I get more AI memes! So worth it.
For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, the Internet Is Too Small.
Microsoft and OpenAI are currently planning to build a $100 billion supercomputer dubbed “Stargate.”
The article is vague, likely because building Stargate is at this point somewhat theoretical. Microsoft allegedly has to find new ways to fit more GPUs (the graphics processing unit that is used in AI compute) in a single rack (the way that servers are mounted in a datacenter), and find an entirely new way of cooling them to make Stargate run. It would also need to source enough energy to power an entire city.
In short, OpenAI and Microsoft are working on a theoretically-massive computer to power the future of AI.
In fact, Microsoft has become Oracle’s largest customer, largely because Microsoft can’t build out the amount of data centers it needs to support the (expected) growth of AI on its own.
Another hallmark of a bubble is a high-revenue, negative-profit industry. Never seem to discuss profits, only endless growth.
How AI will change everything that is mostly made up of the reporter guessing what it could do. I don’t know why so many people are choosing to fill in the gaps, other than the fact that considering the reality of the situation may be a little too terrifying.
They seem far more willing to dream of the future than reckon with the consequences of a present.