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It's unfortunate that Three Mile Island is a meme. Objectively this is a good thing, but it will create headlines and stoke more pearl clutching around AI power consumption.



> and stoke more pearl clutching around AI power consumption

Yeah, as shown by this very thread (and that your comment is greyed out).

Nuclear energy is good. Whether or not AI consuming that energy is good or not, depends on how much you value AI as a technology. No one cares about how much energy gaming PCs or refrigerators uses, because their existence is not currently controversial.

See: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/is-generative-ai-really-g...




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