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Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI
(www.theregister.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Hmm let's see what changed since I last looked. This study seems recent, just looking at the publicly available sections:
Translation: They're way more expensive than renewables. SMRs have some advantage which are mentioned (less land usage, non-intermittency), then we have
...but not renewables+storage, which would be a good comparison point. If it looked any good they definitely would've included it.
Now that doesn't mean that these things don't make sense for Microsoft. It might e.g. simplify power distribution within datacentres to a degree that other sources just can't, also reduce or eliminate the need for backup power, etc. But generally speaking I'm still smelling techbro BS.
I don’t think Microsoft has a money problem.