Even if AI turns out to be a hype cycle, getting a lot of clean energy could make it worth the hassle.

Meta has faced a setback in its plan to build data centers run on nuclear power. The FT reports that CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff last week that the land it was planning to build a new data center on was discovered to be the home of a rare bee species, which would have complicated the building process.

  • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    17 days ago

    I hope that after the bubble bursts the nuclear reactors can be used to put energy on the grid and maybe they’ll find something worthwhile to do with all those compute GPUs.

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
      1·
      17 days ago

      There’s GOTTA be a way to combine liquid cooling of server racks and radiators for home heating

      We use electricity to cool down one thing while we use electricity to heat up a different thing. Makes no sense.