The Three Mile Island nuclear plant, home of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, would restart under a deal in which Microsoft purchases all its power.

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The tax breaks in the Inflation Recovery Act are crucial to making the deal economically feasible, according to Constellation. They provide a credit for every megawatt hour of nuclear energy produced.

lmao so instead of this funding the energy transition it’s just subsidizing the AI grift

  • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    And of course the second tragedy is that the AI is absolute dogshit. They’re not powering an artificial general intelligence that could do useful things like help in running a modern global-scale Project Cybersyn. All this staggering amount of electricity wasted so that Github users don’t need to search Stackoverflow, so that people can say “hey google set a 4 minute timer” in their kitchens instead of hitting a half-dozen buttons on their microwave, so that people can tell Alexa to play Despacito.

    • iridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      28·
      23 hours ago

      They’re not powering an artificial general intelligence that could do useful things like help in running a modern global-scale Project Cybersyn.

      You don’t need that for planning and in fact the People’s Commissariat for Energetics’ secret police would send you to super gulag for suggesting such a preposterous thing.