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Microsoft Looking to Use Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Data Centers::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't think Bill Gates has any significant involvement with Microsoft these days, but wasn't he pushing for greater nucleus power usage, including trialing reactors in India?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

wasn't he pushing for greater nucleus power

You’re thinking of Gavin Belson. Nucleus was a Hooli product.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

LOL I didn't even realize I made that typo. I've been typing nucleus a lot more than nuclear lately.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He is the primary investor of TerraPower. Not sure about anything with India. They do have something that is being planned in Wyoming.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, thanks. I looked it up and apparently he had planned something in China but the plans were scrapped and now it's Wyoming. This is what I get for not looking it up to refresh my memory beforehand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

He was promoting something called traveling wave reactors. Which never panned out. Just like nothing will become of this.