• null@lemmy.nullspace.lol
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    25 days ago

    It does if you consider that they are actually building them to support power usage of datacenters. And that datacenters are used for a lot more than just AI training.

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      25 days ago

      Oh, sorry I forgot that data centers were just invented. Thanks for the reminder!

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        25 days ago

        No you’re right, they built the first one, all the demand that could ever be needed is covered by it, and there’s no reason to ever build any more.

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          25 days ago

          Yet they’ve never needed to commission power plants to dedicate power to these facilities. It’s almost like there’s some new, uniquely power-hungry demand that’s driving this that’s sprung up in the last 5 or so years…

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            25 days ago

            Yet they’ve never needed to commission power plants to dedicate power to these facilities.

            Never?