The tech giant says it will use energy from small reactors to power its use of artificial intelligence.
Google has signed a deal to use small nuclear reactors to generate the vast amounts of energy needed to power its artificial intelligence (AI) data centres.The company says the agreement with Kairos Power will see it start using the first reactor this decade and bring more online by 2035.
They made a deal with a company that has zero practical experience with nuclear reactors, literally built nothing.
It’s impossible that in just 6 years they will manage to:
Build a test reactor for their new unproven technology that as of now exists only as a PowerPoint presentation to show to investors
Have it approved by the government
Build the full scale reactor
Have it approved by the government
Get a license to use enriched uranium in a private setting
Even if they finished yesterday to build the final version of the full scale reactor, 6 years aren’t enough to go all through the regulatory red tape
Now that they promised that will use “green” energy in the future, Google can continue to use energy from coal and in 2030 everyone has forgotten about this vaporware deal
Yeah I don’t know enough about the technologies involved to have an informed opinion but solutions involving nuclear always seem like this…
“Just let us keep doing what we’re doing while we invent a new technology that will solve all our problems.”
Obviously, the answer is… we absolutely should invent this new technology but while we’re doing that we can transition to renewables and avoid grifts that rely on absurd energy usage like crypto and AI.
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It’s pure greenwashing.
They made a deal with a company that has zero practical experience with nuclear reactors, literally built nothing.
It’s impossible that in just 6 years they will manage to:
Even if they finished yesterday to build the final version of the full scale reactor, 6 years aren’t enough to go all through the regulatory red tape
Now that they promised that will use “green” energy in the future, Google can continue to use energy from coal and in 2030 everyone has forgotten about this vaporware deal
Yeah I don’t know enough about the technologies involved to have an informed opinion but solutions involving nuclear always seem like this…
“Just let us keep doing what we’re doing while we invent a new technology that will solve all our problems.”
Obviously, the answer is… we absolutely should invent this new technology but while we’re doing that we can transition to renewables and avoid grifts that rely on absurd energy usage like crypto and AI.