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Biden drafting plan for construction of AI data centers on federal lands
(www.washingtonpost.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2024
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Why can’t we just use nuclear power for this? I know some companies are planning it. Using any other energy source is inefficient and expensive for AI training.
Because there is no waste storage much less anywhere that could stand for the necessary thousands of years. And waste reprocessing is too costly for it ever to be developed by a for-profit or even non-profit but needs to break even company. It would cost trillions and several decades of no political interference in that money to research, develop, and build the reactors, best case.
So, it just sits in pools waiting for a tornado to spread the contaminated water over a whole state, or an earthquake or fracking tremor to cause a leak into the ground water. If AI is chewing through rods, in a decade there will be a hell of a lot of waste and nowhere to put it, much less anywhere to keep it safe for thousands of years.
.....look up ANY information on nuclear waste before ever commenting again.
The Simpsons is not reality.
I think maybe you should take your own advice. All of the data is on the NRC and energy.gov websites. There's about 90,000 metric tons of waste in temporary storage in the US alone and the half life of the waste is around 20,000 years, meaning it will be about 1 million years before it's safe. There are no functional long term storage facilities and there's no permanent solution that will last 1 million years. Most are designed for about 10,000 years, which again, don't actually exist, just designed.
Edit: oh, and it was the US government who taught me all this information as I had training as part of my job in the Navy.