The Irony of Powering AI on Atomic Energy

Microsoft announced a deal to revive Three Mile Island and buy all of the nuclear power plant’s electricity as the demands of its artificial intelligence data centers increase. One anthropologist asks whether a dying 20th century technology that didn’t fulfill its promises should be used to power a new and similarly uncertain one.

via Undark Magazine https://undark.org/2024/10/17/opinion-irony-of-powering-ai-on-atomic-energy/