Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoMicrosoft to Revive Nuclear Plant on Three Mile Island to Handle AI Processingwww.pcmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down13cross-posted to: fuck_ai@lemmy.world
arrow-up1156arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft to Revive Nuclear Plant on Three Mile Island to Handle AI Processingwww.pcmag.comArthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square28fedilinkcross-posted to: fuck_ai@lemmy.world
minus-squareHowManyNimons@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoELI5 please why they don’t just put their server farms in a desert, roofed with solar panels and a big-bum battery?
minus-squareBradleyUffner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoThe Susquehanna River that Three Mile Island sits on offers virtually unlimited fresh cold water for cooling the server farm.
minus-squareSuperIce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·2 months agoBecause you want data centers to be closer to the users for speed.
minus-squareHowManyNimons@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoDoesn’t that depend on the application?
ELI5 please why they don’t just put their server farms in a desert, roofed with solar panels and a big-bum battery?
The Susquehanna River that Three Mile Island sits on offers virtually unlimited fresh cold water for cooling the server farm.
Because you want data centers to be closer to the users for speed.
Doesn’t that depend on the application?