• HowManyNimons@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    ELI5 please why they don’t just put their server farms in a desert, roofed with solar panels and a big-bum battery?

    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The Susquehanna River that Three Mile Island sits on offers virtually unlimited fresh cold water for cooling the server farm.

      • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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        Fucking up the temperature downstream; global warming baby! But who needs that ecosystem? It’s survive or die, and that includes the beavers! Down with trees, up with fleas(markets)!

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        And it flows into Chesapeake bay after passing by Peach Bottom nuke plant, where unannounced inspections have revealed everyone sleeping.

        At one time, farmers used to grow popcorn on 3MI. Post-incident, pets were born with deformities on the York County side, harder to tell with the humans there.

        We won’t go into the time I drove into Indian Point during the day and found no one in attendance. No guards, gates open, etc.

        I drove all over the plant. Took a while to find anyone, and that person was annoyed at my needing to make a delivery, but there was no one at the dock.

        I’m not on either side, but if you read an article about nukes, someone paid for it, pro or con.

        It’s not that simple.

      • leftytighty@slrpnk.net
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        Transit latency is a tiny tiny fraction of the round trip time for AI processing tasks. Until AI tasks are in the order of milliseconds instead of seconds it’s a rounding error.