misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoUS Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surgesnews.slashdot.orgexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1113arrow-down19
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minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoIt takes a long time to get a nuclear plant up and running. While it would be great to replace coal plants with nuclear, it wouldn’t help with all of the power being wasted on AI right now.
It takes a long time to get a nuclear plant up and running. While it would be great to replace coal plants with nuclear, it wouldn’t help with all of the power being wasted on AI right now.