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Comment by atomic128

10 hours ago

And to power all those fused-multiply-add circuits, Meta will likely soon be involved in the construction or restart or life-extension of nuclear fission reactors, just like Microsoft and Google and Amazon (and Oracle, allegedly).

Quoting Yann LeCun (Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta):

  AI datacenters will be built next to energy production sites that can produce 
  gigawatt-scale, low-cost, low-emission electricity continuously.

  Basically, next to nuclear power plants.

  The advantage is that there is no need for expensive and wasteful
  long-distance distribution infrastructure.

  Note: Yes, solar and wind are nice and all, but they require lots of land
  and massive-scale energy storage systems for when there is too little sun
  and/or wind. Neither simple nor cheap.

https://x.com/ylecun/status/1837875035270263014