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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors (futurism.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Microsoft is big enough that government would force them to pay up.

Lmao

Just like they made the banks pay up? Like how they make oil companies pay up?

Right now it's commonplace for oil rigs and nuclear plants to be decommissioned on the taxpayer, sometimes entirely funded by them even, rather than by the company.