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> burning GPUs and pushing CO2 in the atmosphere

My startup develops AI for the nuclear power industry to drive process, documentation, and regulatory efficiency. We like to say "AI needs nuclear and nuclear needs AI".

Big tech has finally realized/gone public that casually saying things like "we're building our next 1GW datacenter" is uhh, problematic[0].

For some time now there has been significant interest/activity in wiring up entire datacenters to nuclear reactors (existing Gen 2, SMRs, etc):

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-huang-says-nuclear-pow...

https://www.ans.org/news/article-5842/amazon-buys-nuclearpow...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-signs-groundbreaking-en...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/10/oracle-is-designing-a-data-c...

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4913714-google-ceo-eye...

[0] - https://www.npr.org/2024/07/12/g-s1-9545/ai-brings-soaring-e...



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