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rmoriz commented on AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/... · Posted by u/geox

SoftTalker · 4 days ago

Well we've had them since the 1950s, where are all these terrorist attacks? The only nuclear disasters have been accidental, and those were made worse by early reactor designs that didn't account for safety to the degree necessary.

rmoriz · 3 days ago

The Twin Towers were attacked almost 30 years after.

rmoriz commented on AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/... · Posted by u/geox

m4ck_ · 4 days ago

Tell that to the people in North Carolina whose neighborhoods were built on coal ash dumps. A little undocumented whooopsie from the power company and all the sudden your kids all have eye cancer.

rmoriz · 4 days ago

AI is a bubble and in a few months, expensive nuclear energy will either be not needed anymore or replaced by cheaper solar and wind energy. The plant was decommissioned years ago because it was just not running profitable. And it will never be except within a bubble phase, like AI is currently in. Nuclear energy is the most stupid energy to ramp up during high demand phases.

rmoriz commented on AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/... · Posted by u/geox

Filligree · 4 days ago

Radiation from coal goes into the air and tailings, which aren’t well controlled, and stays dangerous for centuries.

Radiation from nuclear waste is constrained to steel casks in cooling ponds, and the waste can be reprocessed for use in breeder reactors instead of letting it sit.

rmoriz · 4 days ago

The costs of protecting nuclear waste for 100.000 years from terrorists and during wars will be impossible. It's a super easy target. Just attack the power plants and nuclear waste facilities of the opponent and you have won the war.

rmoriz commented on AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/... · Posted by u/geox

sigwinch · 4 days ago

The mercury and other pollution dusted by coal doesn’t degrade. It has the same two solutions as nuclear waste: ignore or concentrate.

rmoriz · 4 days ago

if you operate a coal plant for 3 years until the bubble bursts, you will emit 3 years of toxins and carbon dioxide. If you operate a nuclear plant for just one minute, your highly radioactive waste will be a burden for thousands of generations.

rmoriz commented on AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/... · Posted by u/geox

rmoriz · 4 days ago

Coal would harm the nature for months until the bubble bursts, nuclear waste will last forever. And hopefully the old nuclear plants won’t fail uncontrolledly.

rmoriz · 4 days ago

Old nuclear plants are huge targets for sabotage by foreign spies and terrorists. If they can make one blow up, it will decide every conflict in their favour. It's like having a huge bomb in your garden on display for everyone to target.

rmoriz commented on AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/... · Posted by u/geox

danmaz74 · 4 days ago

At least, they're not reactivating a coal power plant.

rmoriz · 4 days ago

Coal would harm the nature for months until the bubble bursts, nuclear waste will last forever. And hopefully the old nuclear plants won’t fail uncontrolledly.

rmoriz commented on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service theregister.com/2025/12/0... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

rmoriz · 14 days ago

Well, diversity is great but I think many people underestimate the quality and service of GitHub, especially the free services. Even commercial vendors have failed to provide such a free service over time (Docker Hub, Bintray, Sourceforge). They all have/had the power to earn money though commercial offerings and ads, but in the end had to cut down their free services. I still wonder, how codeberg plans to cover the exploding costs.

rmoriz commented on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off businessinsider.com/ibm-c... · Posted by u/nabla9

nialse · 14 days ago

The game is getting OpenAI to owe you as much money as you can. When they fail to pay back, you own OpenAI.

rmoriz · 14 days ago

You are talking about the circular investments in the segment? Yes, but assume NVIDIA can get cheap access to IP and products of failing AI unicorns through contracts, this does not mean the LLM business can be operated profitably by them. Models are like fresh food, they start to rot by the training cut off date and lose value. The process of re-training a model will always be very expensive.

rmoriz commented on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off businessinsider.com/ibm-c... · Posted by u/nabla9

singpolyma3 · 14 days ago

Are they LLM specific?

rmoriz · 14 days ago

Deep down technically probably not, but they are optimized for this workload and business model. I doubt that once the AI bubble busts, another business model is viable. While datacenters can be downsized or partially shut down until demand picks up again, high end hardware is just losing money by the second.

rmoriz commented on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off businessinsider.com/ibm-c... · Posted by u/nabla9

rmoriz · 14 days ago

The second buyer will make truckloads of money, remember the data center and fiber network liquidation of 2001+ - smart investors collected the overcapacity and after a couple of years the money printer worked. This time it will be the same, only the single purpose hardware (LLM specific GPUs) will probably end on a landfill.

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KarmaCake day3620June 11, 2009View Original