Saturday, September 21, 2024

How Much Energy Do AI Data Centers Suck Up? Enough to Restart Three Mile Island For

 Constellation Energy to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant, sell the power to Microsoft for AI Constellation Energy plans to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear plant and will sell the power to Microsoft, demonstrating the immense energy needs of the tech sector as they build out data centers to support artificial intelligence.

He has his Microsoft dudes heavily into planning AI data centers to develop and promote the technology in all its forms and uses.

It is weirdly starting to look like the past, no?

And just so we're clear - reopening TMI won't benefit anyone BUT the Microsoft data centers.

While the Green grifters are busy making sure people's lives get less comfortable and more expensive every day, as the things that once made a "standard of living" worth attaining are stripped away piece by piece... ...some of the wealthiest in the EAT THE BUGS crowd have the wherewithal to take a different approach by virtue of their place in the economic food chain - at the pinnacle.

In Elon's case, a controversial ad hoc arrangement for his xAI data center outside of Memphis - natural gas generators until someone can cough up enough juice.

Microsoft will purchase electricity from the plant in a 20-year agreement to match the energy its data centers consume with carbon-free power.

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/09/20/how-much-energy-do-ai-data-centers-suck-up-enough-to-restart-three-mile-island-for-n3794757

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