this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2023
1138 points (97.5% liked)

Technology

69629 readers
32 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This seems kind of ideal though, computers provide a near constant load (relatively speaking) that combines very well with nuclear energy.

Perhaps we should be asking why we haven’t already been doing this for the past decade?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Because it costs less money ~~to push the cost to~~ for taxpayers to subsidize it than owning it

Correction

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Those data centers are paying for their electrical usage. Economies of scale just make it more favorable for them over building their own power generation (solar/wind excluded).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Tell me you know nothing about data centers without telling me.