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    Amazon setzt auf Atomkraft und investiert mehr als 500 Millionen US-Dollar in die Entwicklung kleiner modularer Reaktoren


    Amazon setzt auf Atomkraft und investiert mehr als 500 Millionen US-Dollar in die Entwicklung kleiner modularer Reaktoren

    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/16/amazon-goes-nuclear-investing-more-than-500-million-to-develop-small-module-reactors.html

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    4. pdxisbest on

      It bears mentioning that their interest in new electrical generating capacity is to power data centers and AI, not to help with the societal transition to cleaner energy. AI is remarkably energy intensive. It takes a ton of juice to build and train a model, and each search query to AI uses 10x the power of a standard google search.

      Hopefully, their quest for power may lead to advances in modular reactor design that might be deployed for public benefit instead of corporate profit.

    6. Phalex on

      SMRs advantage is mass production. If 300 different companies try to make theese, the advantage is gone.

    8. upyoars on

      what is Amazon going to do with advanced large scale AI that needs to be powered by nuclear reactors? track consumer behavior patterns for their own financial gain? that sounds like we’re entering a more dystopian world

    10. minus_minus on

      I will be stunned if the AI boom actually makes economies of scale a reality for nuclear power. 

    12. thatmikeguy on

      Amazon, Google, and MS all at the same time realized not enough power, at the same time someone may break how utilities work in the US.

    15. rainkloud on

      This is going to tie up a lot of smart people doing a dumb thing. These things are expensive, untested and inefficient and you still have nuclear waste you have to deal with and uranium to mine.

      Better to keep investing in improvements to renewables.

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