There were no documented fatalities, illnesses, or injuries..
The ensuing fearmongering campaign effectively killed nuclear energy in the United States...
But now nuclear power is on the verge of a comeback, with Silicon Valley leading the way...
- Artificial intelligence (AI) devours electricity. A ChatGPT search requires about 10 times more watt-hours than a traditional Google search. Training GPT-3, a large language model that uses AI to generate text, requires about 1,300 megawatt-hours (MWh)—the same as the annual energy consumption of 130 households.
- Our grids will need an additional capacity of at least 18 gigawatts (GWs) to service AI's data centers by 2030. New York City's grid is about 6 GW annually, so the grid needs about three Big Apples' worth of capacity to satiate AI's energy needs.
- Intermittent sources, such as wind and solar, cannot meet that need...
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