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Microsoft Looking to Use Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Data Centers (www.extremetech.com)
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Microsoft Looking to Use Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Data Centers::undefined

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is talking about SMRs and not traditional reactors. SMRs still haven't left the prototype stage, but maybe they'll start to be useful in a decade's time, who knows.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That would be a wildly optimistic timeline. And even if they managed to produce a working system by then, it would still take decades longer to scale up to the point where these things could make a meaningful contribution. That's time we simply don't have.