| | | | The Next Energy Revolution
If you wanna know the energy source of the future, I can give it to you right now:
Nuclear.
Sure, the environmentalists have shut down the majority of nuclear reactors around the world. But nuclear is about to come back in a BIG way. And it’s not because of climate change or a “green new deal.” None of that pie in the sky stuff. The reason nuclear is coming back is just plain old economics.
You see, artificial intelligence requires a ton of energy. You didn’t think all those chatCPT prompts came cheaply did you? Training a GPT model requires about the same amount of energy as 130 U.S. homes consume per year. And the current energy grid just can’t support those needs.
And that’s just AI. But all of the data that our tech world produces is stored in massive data centers. As the data grows, those data centers need more energy to process and store it. Again, energy requirements that our current grid cannot provide.
Which is why pretty much all of the tech companies are now lobbying for more nuclear power. Just today, Microsoft announce that it is paying to reopen the famed nuclear plant Three Mile Island:
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