Some companies like Microsoft have started buying old closed down nuclear power plants like Three Mile Island in order to use them to power their AI, so hopefully it can offset a large portion of the energy demand.
crazy thought, what if this was the end-goal of the AI pump and dump? Tech firms now have a runway for initiating nuclear weapons programs under the guise of managing their electricity needs.
These nuclear plants were closed for a reason. It was determined that they were unsustainable and required major maintenance and reconstruction.
If Tech Companies (who have no experience in running Nuclear power plants) start recommissioning them, and don’t properly maintain them, it is going to get very disastrous, very quickly.
Some companies like Microsoft have started buying old closed down nuclear power plants like Three Mile Island in order to use them to power their AI, so hopefully it can offset a large portion of the energy demand.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-ai
Great, just what the world needed: bigtech buying (scarce, non-renewable) uranium and selling the resulting plutonium to the highest bidder.
crazy thought, what if this was the end-goal of the AI pump and dump? Tech firms now have a runway for initiating nuclear weapons programs under the guise of managing their electricity needs.
Yup, crazy thought, but we see worse in the news these days so I’m not ruling it out.
Microsoft isn’t the sort of company I would want to run a nuclear power plant. That’s a huge responsibility
These nuclear plants were closed for a reason. It was determined that they were unsustainable and required major maintenance and reconstruction.
If Tech Companies (who have no experience in running Nuclear power plants) start recommissioning them, and don’t properly maintain them, it is going to get very disastrous, very quickly.