Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors - Lemmy.world

There is nothing wrong with nuclear power
List of nuclear power accidents by country - Wikipedia

That list records 8 fatalities related to nuclear power in the US. All time.

Coal is responsible for more than 40. Per year. Just in my city.

Yeah and only 31 died at Chernobyl, arguably the worst and farthest reaching disaster in modern times.

Death counts alone aren’t what you should be solely concerned about.

How many years has it been since chernobyl?
37 years since that single nuclear accident that devastated the site and left around 2600 Square kilometres around it still unsafe to be in nearly 4 decades later.