Tuesday, August 26, 2025

AI & Nuclear 2

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

"Staggering" amounts of energy are needed for the coming build-out of artificial intelligence. Here's a comparison from the CNBC video below to illustrate it: just one ChatGPT query takes about 10x the power required for an ordinary Google search.

Even when new power plants come online, either public or privately owned by a tech company, our electricity grid is a concern. The average transformer is 38 years old.

Even water becomes a challenge. It's often used to cool down the servers so they can operate 24/7. One alternative is to use big air conditioning units instead of water.

It all adds up to huge consumption of resources.

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