>If what you're saying is true, why are we hearing about AI companies wanting to build nuclear power plants to power new data centers they think they need to build?
Something to temper this, lots of these AI datacenter projects are being cancelled or put on hiatus because the demand isnt there.
But if someone wants to build a nuke reactor to power their datacenter, awesome. No downsides? We are concerned about energy consumption only because of its impact on the earth in terms of carbon footprint. If its nuclear, the problem has already been solved.
AI seems like it is speedrunning all the phases of the hype cycle.
"TD Cowen analysts Michael Elias, Cooper Belanger, and Gregory Williams wrote in the latest research note: “We continue to believe the lease cancellations and deferrals of capacity points to data center oversupply relative to its current demand forecast.”"
Something to temper this, lots of these AI datacenter projects are being cancelled or put on hiatus because the demand isnt there.
But if someone wants to build a nuke reactor to power their datacenter, awesome. No downsides? We are concerned about energy consumption only because of its impact on the earth in terms of carbon footprint. If its nuclear, the problem has already been solved.