Inside Three Mile Island: A.I. energy demands fuel nuclear revival

[@Bfould3120]

We should be building a new generation of reactors that are safer and can’t be used as weapons. The French have been using the waste from reactors like this in their plants to make power instead on storage the hazards indefinitely onsite. This effect to restart this site might make business sense for the company but the politics of this effect could delay the nuclear power industry return to growth decades.

[@bizzfo]

Control room straight from the 60’s😂

[@SRN42069]

If it ain't broke don't fix it lol Also a lot of systems have been upgraded behind the scenes.

[@qnbits]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it like SRN said. I trust old robust analog systems over complicated systems that can malfunction. Imagine that the reactor is overheating and Windows 11 decides it's time for a mandatory unstoppable update and it triggers a meltdown.

[@Blake4625kHz]

@SRN42069 lol is foxboro still a thing

[@synth1002]

I liked your comment, but i would rather trust tech from 60s than tik-tok enginering marvels like boing 737 max...

[@harrisrubinroit2863]

This is a WIN for: CLEAN Energy Reliable & Scalable Energy ENERGY SECURITY.

[@chrisregister8021]

Well we got this old nuclear reactor just sitting there...😮

[@Wosat]

The claim that "A.I. chips use up to 14,300 watts of power each" (1:50) is misleading. There is only one A.I. chip that uses that much power; it's made by Cerebras and it is uniquely large -- taking up an entire wafer, over 8" square. Cerebras chips are still very rare. Quoting this statistic while showing a normal sized chip is sloppy reporting, NBC. Most A.I. chips use less than 700 watts.

[@causarumcognitio]

Seriously, someone just pulled out the most ridiculous statistic. I mean, we could put the ENIAC 1 or Turing machine in a datacenter and claim they can be used for AI. Doesn’t mean that’s what they’re using.

[@IN-hw8it6]

My printer is 500 Wats, 50 in standby! 😁

[@ezrakirkpatrick5365]

Technology + Nuclear Power *vs* Human Greed + Coal I know which one I'll pick.

[@iancarbo9233]

I mean the human greed is never gonna cease, but at least, as long as they do it right which is safe, it won't be fueling global warming.

[@SRN42069]

Coal power is more dangerous then Nuclear Power and all the disasters combined lol

[@iancarbo9233]

@SRN42069 I mean I agree with you haha. Nuclear is better than coal. Human greed is still gonna exist with it though. Like how Google is trying to buy out the plant so that they are the only ones to reap the cheap, green energy.

[@fortunatebum]

Thank god, the people who scream nuclear power is bad are the same people who want to continue using coal.

[@austinverlinden2236]

Its bad because of the toxic waste it produces at the end of its use. We bury that toxic waste in the ground. Nuclear would be good if we can get Nuclear Fusion as it doesnt produce any toxic waste.

[@szymex22]

This is what sustainable energy looks like.

[@jeffwxyz]

That 1960's equipment that people look down on CAN'T BE HACKED over the internet. It is the most secure thing you can have!

[@thebishtable]

ummmm no... No chip uses 14,300 watts... 1:47

[@carlosgamez6230]

1,400 watts maybe, maybe he confused the server farms total energy use

[@alreaud]

@@carlosgamez6230 Most of the online data on chips like the H200 and the MI325X is 250-750W. Maybe that was a full rack module with memory and everything.

[@ronz101]

Maintenance, maintenance, maintenance. Don't fool around with this stuff !!! 🎉

[@jonlloyd3020]

So I thought AI is supposed to be smart but it’s using so much electricity. Doesn’t sound intelligent

[@CastleBomb44]

Business people gotta run their expensive AI chips 24/7 for the biggest return on their investment on their expensive AI chips. Sadly they can't be convinced to only run their AI chips when the grid has cheaper power.

[@edwardlariviere9710]

Think of all the food you need to keep running your brain. All that energy. Do you know how we measure calories in food. We put it in a sealed chamber filled with oxygen and burn all of it and measure the heat output. Now take away all that fancy biomechanical processes that allow us to use food as the way we do and now have to instead rely on mechanical energy to power our brains on circuit boards/computers. That's A.I in a nutshell The biggest difference between a human mind and AI mind(aside from the body) one is created by shocking a lump of meat (gray matter) and the other is created by shocking a rock(silicon). But our brains have a biomechanical advantage. Every neuron has a resting voltage of 70 millivolt(0.07 V). Till now it doesn't look like a big thing but the calculations suggest that the human brain has regions which possess an electric filed of strength 14 million volts per metre which is much larger than a lighting strike on the ground. creating mechanical life is not easy. Hope this helps you understand a little more about it

[@monkeybusiness2204]

Is this the start where human is used as unlimited battery for AI?

[@pauldannelachica2388]

They should put modern sensor on nuclear plants

[@napier1741]

Cant wait till we get fusion cores. The power required to run is less then a nuclear plant and can significantly output more power then a mega nuclear plant with 4 cores

[@ForbiddTV]

Electricity for the people before robots.

[@mrchikago4420]

The CEO now I'm not the CEO 😅😂

[@1sttigertiger426]

Before putting online new nuclear power plants, how will nuclear waste be disposed?

[@alreaud]

The way it always has been, sequestration.

[@1sttigertiger426]

@alreaud I dont understand. What will happen to the spent nuclear fuel rods, which are still radioactive. Where will they be safely disposed for hundreds of thousands of years?

[@alreaud]

@@1sttigertiger426 They have to be stored in salt mines and similar impregnable underground areas and sealed up. Some can be recycled into new fuel. But at some point you have radionuclides that can't be used and must be stored for a long long time.

[@JeffEbe-te2xs]

In the ocean

[@JeffEbe-te2xs]

Mean dumped in the ocean

[@Blake4625kHz]

Is it just me or was the turbine shaft not rotating at all and how long has it sat like that

[@SanAndreasWatchParty]

The NIMBYs are sharpening their pitchforks and getting the torches ready as we speak

[@kylemacintoshlinux1449]

Let's say hypothetically that small modular reactors come to market and that I get one installed in my backyard. Think the NIMBYs in my neighborhood would have an aneurysm? 😈 Especially when I inform them "Why technically it's in my backyard, not yours".

[@ryanchappell5962]

We are lucky to have reactors like this on standby. Solar and wind have become so cheap that they aren’t being used. Looks like we need them now.

[@ForbiddTV]

Nuclear is actually cheaper than ruinables when real numbers are used.

[@BeagleBob-zw7wg]

So nuclear plants were available but everyday folks using electricity wasn't enough reason to stop burning the coal.

[@ketas]

i read ai demands starting of a reactor

[@2024mikeelder]

Outsourcing it to your pocket: now your phone price and electric bill are on you.

[@causarumcognitio]

No. AI chips being used don’t use 14,300 watts each. It’s around 700-800. But there are other CPU chips required that use anywhere from 25 or 50 to 300. To run the main AI chips. Still nowhere near 14,300. Whoever wrote this for the video clearly isn’t good at their job as a background researcher and took the statistic from another bad background researcher. They didn’t actually do any research, fire them.

[@ShapeshifterGlass]

These companies get the purchase all the power at cheap rates and us the people are stuck cleaning up the nuclear waste.

[@biglogied5142]

Those statistics were so incorrect it’s insane….. 😂

[@francoluissotomayor3123]

For ai they build but not for us… reduce the carbon or reduce the carbon based life?

[@the_right_nut_4722]

Nuclear Now !

[@oldsteamguy]

I want to work there.

[@TamagoHead]

Data centers eat water.

[@spacesoup6797]

once ai get endless power we are either cooked or blasting towards the future

[@mattanderson6457]

Only one keeps me warm and wealthy

[@ijustliketocook]

There has to be a better way?

[@lokesh303101]

Yes!

[@mrmjohnson1980]

Industry will take/get the cheap power our country needs.. We the people, well...

[@MonacoBlast66]

The future's so bright...

[@alreaud]

But a brain works on a sandwich... I think we should focus more on photonic processing like has been in the MIT News. Chips based on transistor technology, even the best, consume way too much power at scale, and require massive cooling.

[@gallardoo9]

with the new technology here Nuke power is very efficient and safe, but the babcock wilcox reactors got the bad rap. While solar and wind are being forced upon on at record high rates to perpetuate the humans in charge of weather garbage, here in California we pay the highest electric rates in the US and the most unreliable as a result of the green energy crap, my generator works well

[@lga9046]

Is this a proper sentence or a box of words?

[@TommyPickIes]

Real Ai doesn't exist yet...fake news

[@g00rb4u]

AI exists, AGI doesn't. Your claim of 'fake news' is false.

[@Winston-K]

4:20 just put 1 Homer in there. ❤

[@JeffEbe-te2xs]

What happened to green energy

[@MulletHamster]

Nuclear power is green energy.

[@SRN42069]

Bro nuclear power is the only green base energy we have, Solar and wind are find but they aren't base power that can operate 24/7

[@DavidforDance]

The AI future nuclear power

[@albertoserrano67]

Let's be honest A.I. still in testing, more likely bitcoin mining as well

[@bradisbell]

Nope. Bitcoin miners couldn't give a crap less how they get their power. They just want it cheap. They won't be paying the premium for emission-free power that big tech pays.

[@Oneshotforever]

So ai and nuclear energy.....tensions in the arctic and canada slowly leaning into becoming the 51st.... ive seen this somewhere before ill check back in 43 years

[@Nabrolo]

Lol you're delusional if you think Canada is joining USA

[@oldowl33]

Bitcoin miners…

[@jjadna]

That’s terrible return investment

[@TheCloudpiercer]

Bad idea.

[@papayuki3590]

oh do tell why do we not use the nuke power to power homes? if it is so great to power data centers that run the oh so lovely AI and the nuke power is so green ... why is it not to power homes and data centers ... or power homes with nuke and use the green power (solar/wind) to power the data centers

[@szymex22]

We do use it to power homes… what else do you think nuclear power plants do?

[@oceanwave4502]

Thanks God that Germany doesn't have a strong AI development, so we don't need to resort to using nuclear reactors for electricity. We decide to live on the shoulder of giants: patiently let America train the models, then we just use them. 😉

[@josephrossman1600]

you had to start using more coal because your big brain green party shut down the most efficient source of power that’s ever been created.

[@jaym9846]

Seems AI is leading humanity down the wrong road.

[@BallardBaller]

Hate it, but it’s the fastest way off fossil fuels that are about to runout

[@thesink5723]

To heck with AI , no need to start a nuclear reactor just for AI !!!

[@seabastian7996]

Chernobyl 2 electric boogaloo

[@Goprof150]

Not even close

[@SRN42069]

Chernobyl was a flawed soviet era design that the issue was known 4 years before it happened. Times have changed nuclear reactors are extremely safe i'd bet everything own that another thing like that won't happen again.