Jan Wildeboer 😷
Next week, France is forced yet again to reduce output and in some cases completely shut down nuclear reactors as the high temperatures heats up the cooling water they take from rivers beyond acceptable limits. This is the new normal now and will only get worse over the following years as we collectively ignore #ClimateChange
d@nny disc@ mc²@jwildeboer solar panels also reduce in efficiency as temperature rises; the "temperature coefficient" is one of the many considerations in which panel to buy. panels with too-high temperature coefficients will need to be replaced with newer more efficient panels over time to cope with warming temperatures, much like nuclear power plants and indeed all energy infrastructure requires.
@jwildeboer solar panels do indeed require less up-front government investment than nuclear plants, so if you don't like governments investing in their own sovereign infrastructure, then delegating the responsibility of solar panel installation to individuals and offering handouts to corporations as subsidies is a great way to lead the country into austerity.
@jwildeboer would be curious how long it's been since those nuclear plants have been replaced or updated and what technology they're using. surely comparing 50-year old reactor technology to subsidized solar panel tech from current year isn't quite apples to apples. no way to verify this from your post though.
@jwildeboer if we're concerned about local heat pollution i assume we would also wind down local data centers too right? yet you advocate for more local data centers to run "local" "AI" here. https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/114279031256479061 the reason i became disgusted with my prior employer the US department of energy was their acceptance of siting "AI" data centers on top of nuclear power plants, which worsens the heat pollution and water usage of both to subsidize statistical bullshit for private industry instead of contributing to public services for all. if local heat pollution and freshwater extraction is a concern, then we should hold these data centers to the same standards, which means not building LLMs at all, regardless of who owns them.
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (@[email protected])
It's a new version of #InnerSourcing, that is starting to grow, IMHO. We will see more investments in bare metal, a modest growth of BYODC (Build Your Own Data Center). Hybrid cloud solutions. And smaller, self-owned and trained AI models. All of this will be based more on compliance and risk avoidance and not a big patriotic/nationalistic move as some like to promote. 2/4
@jwildeboer i notice for example that your employer stands to profit from building more local data centers, but not from local nuclear power plants. i hope to see you holding their feet to the fire as well.