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Google, Amazon buy nonexistent mini nuclear reactors for AI data centers
(pivot-to-ai.com)
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this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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You're correct that I can't stop them from making pants on head stupid decisions, but I'm not going to stop making fun of them.
They're going to fund currently economically nonviable nuclear plants to power their currently economically nonviable genAI schemes? Over the time horizon of ~~25 years~~ a decade (edit: misread the article) before they scale up energy capacity at all past the rnd stage? Maybe pants on head is too generous.
I’m not crunching the numbers over here, but they must be making money off AI if they’re doing this. I’m sure they have further plans that aren’t public yet.
I’m not a fan of AI, so if Microsoft or Google ends up in a dumpster fire because of all this I will never stop laughing about it. I just don’t expect it.
is such a laughable, ridiculous thing to say, like what the fuck dude, where did you get this idea from even
Yeah corporations love spending massive amounts of money on projects with no return on their investment. Microsoft is signing a 20 year contract for massive amounts of power for funsies, and totally handing out copilot licenses for free to all the other corporations that are adopting it.
Have you ever sat in a meeting with corporate people? All they every think about is money money and more money. Laugh all you want - MS is doing the laughing as every company scrambles to adopt AI purely out of fear of being left behind, and they are paying for it. The install base is already so huge for the OS, this is the easiest payout they could ask for. They have to shit the bed HARD to fuck this up.
The tech industry runs on investors spurred on by hype and promises of huge profits somewhere in the future
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron
Some Wikipedia editor has a nice sense of comedic timing, placing this right before the article picture and the infobox before dropping the
Man the internet is wild. I say MS probably has a plan to profit from AI based on their 20 year contract for nuclear power and you guys are like “but Enron failed!” Holy fuck ya really reaching to pick those cherries now
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Inc.
Your blithe trust in capital fails to be endearing.
it’s weird that Enron of all things was the line for them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
thank you for reminding me of this which I forget
I’ll take “comments posted with extremely definite and concrete knowledge of current operator spend and market dynamics” for 2c, Alex
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