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you can say that, but are big tech building new data centers and contracting with nuclear energy producers to support WP websites?
by jgalt212 2y ago
you can say that, but are big tech building new data centers and contracting with nuclear energy producers to support WP websites?
- jazzyjackson 2y agoThere are no nuclear energy producers being contracted, just upstarts that promise to deliver energy later, in exchange for a promise to buy that energy.
- jgalt212 2y agoThree Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers > Three Mile Island, the power plant near Middletown, Pa., that was the scene of the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history, will reopen to power Microsoft's data centers https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-ai https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-isla...
- spondylosaurus 2y agoWorth noting that they'll be using a different reactor than the one that melted down, and that "the worst commercial nuclear accident in US history" remarkably, thankfully, didn't result in any direct casualties. Our track record is pretty solid.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoI'll eat my hat if that bears fruit but it's like I said, a power purchase agreement for a source that is slated to come online at a future date. (I should have been more specific in my assertion: no nuclear companies currently producing energy are being contracted)
- bastawhiz 2y agoWhere are there data centers running WordPress exclusively? It runs everywhere. It's smeared across probably every shared data center in the world. If WordPress was released today and had the sort of growth that AI has has, yeah, there would probably be considerations to spin up new power sources. Saving 5% electricity per WordPress http request is a massive amount of electricity in aggregate.