MIT Review: Can nuclear power really fuel the rise of AI?

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3. "Three to five years..." WTF???

Many of these tech companies will require large amounts of power in the next three to five years, White says, but building new nuclear plants can take close to a decade.

That kind of short term thinking will be the ultimate cause of this civilization's collapse.

We ought to be thinking several generations ahead, at the very least we ought to be thinking about the world our grandchildren will inherit.

Data centers are not a necessity. We should not be building them any faster than we can provide clean sustainable energy for them.

Powering these data centers with fossil fuels is obscene.

With any luck this industry will collapse and the sorry remains of it will be sold for pennies on the dollar to scientific and medical institutions that will use it in ways that actually make the world a better place.

Burning fossil fuels to make poor imitations of existing software, YouTube video slop, dull background music for big box stores, naked pictures of ex-girlfriends, to write school term papers and meaningless novels, to sell us crap we don't need, to initiate unjust police surveillance, to violate our Civil Rights... is utterly obscene.