Worried the United States could fall behind in artificial intelligence, the White House wants to encourage data centers and dedicated power plants.
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And, let me guess, we’ll need to drill for oil on those federal lands so we can power those data centers.
All for AI that almost no one wants.
Why can’t we just use nuclear power for this? I know some companies are planning it. Using any other energy source is inefficient and expensive for AI training.
Because there is no waste storage much less anywhere that could stand for the necessary thousands of years. And waste reprocessing is too costly for it ever to be developed by a for-profit or even non-profit but needs to break even company. It would cost trillions and several decades of no political interference in that money to research, develop, and build the reactors, best case.
So, it just sits in pools waiting for a tornado to spread the contaminated water over a whole state, or an earthquake or fracking tremor to cause a leak into the ground water. If AI is chewing through rods, in a decade there will be a hell of a lot of waste and nowhere to put it, much less anywhere to keep it safe for thousands of years.
Great idea…
Let’s make sure Elmo and trump can build data centers on federal lands wherever they want, surely nothing could go wrong.
