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Google, Amazon buy nonexistent mini nuclear reactors for AI data centers (pivot-to-ai.com)
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BRING IT ON NITPICKY NUKE NERDS

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[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

Fortune named Enron "America's Most Innovative Company" for six consecutive years.

Some Wikipedia editor has a nice sense of comedic timing, placing this right before the article picture and the infobox before dropping the

At the end of 2001, it was revealed that Enron's reported financial condition was sustained by an institutionalized, systematic, and creatively planned accounting fraud, known since as the Enron scandal.

[-] Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

Your blithe trust in capital fails to be endearing.

[-] self@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

it’s weird that Enron of all things was the line for them

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

I'm also impressed that the bailey they retreat into ('I just said that they would have a plan to make money over 20 years') is just as badly defendable as the motte 'they must be making money'. Quality work.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

There's a full cherry tree, you can pick as many cherries as you can eat.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

has a plan to profit

You say "plan" but I think what you really mean is that Satya crossed his fingers and hoped for the best

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