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Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power

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589 points atomic128 | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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tehjoker ◴[15 Oct 24 00:48 UTC] No.41843799[source]▶
Man, this wide scale deployment of LLMs is gonna wreck the environment. Why do we even need this?
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1. fulafel ◴[15 Oct 24 04:10 UTC] No.41844864[source]▶
It's encouraging that people are starting to think critically about energy usage in the US and worrying about LLMs is as good introduction as any.

The main problem is that US needs to ramp down fossil fuel extraction and usage, and bring down per capita general electricity usage to levels resembling the rest of the western world. See eg this map: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use