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that would be 25-35 reactors, as long as cooling is available you can just put them in one place. 5GW is around size of largest european nuclear powerplants (Zaporozhian, 5.7GW; Gravelines, 5.4GW; six blocks each) or around energy consumption of decently-sized euro country like Ireland, Hungary or Bulgaria. 25GW is electricity consumption of Poland, 30GW UK, 35GW Spain
this is not happening hardest because by the time they'd get permits for NPP they'll get bankrupt because bubble will be over
The theoretical Three Mile Island datacentre is probably the end-point of all of this. I think that what they build there (should it actually happen) has to be AGI. Like, unambiguously AGI. Where even the most hardline AI skeptics will react with "Holy shit they actually did it."
Anything less and it'll be nearly impossible to justify building 5 nuclear reactors to just power one of these datacentres.
So even if it is happening, it's still not happening.
i don't think TMI even has space for 5 blocks
I don't think they're planning to build the 5GW datacentres on TMI, though.
i don't think they're planning to build anything, but it'd be very funny if they ended up doing that anyway bleeding MS out of money