Microsoft ‘Buys’ Nuclear Power Plant to Run AI – and it’s Showing Us the Future - Nick Bowler

The second significant fact is that the purchaser of the entire output of this reactor for the next 20 years is Microsoft.

• The technology giant will build a new plant to develop AI nearby, and it will need the output of a nuclear reactor to guarantee the energy requirements of the project.
• The anticipated huge surge in energy demand from this sector (all of which has to be in the form of electricity) is prompting AI companies to make deals with energy companies to secure their slice of the cake in a world where energy security is becoming less and less certain.
• AI is set to surpass even the huge energy consumption requirements of digital crypto-currency transactions and storage...