> Moore’s law is “dead”, but the AI boom is being built on GPUs that get faster, smaller, and cheaper every year? Moore's law doesn't mean that things get sma

> Moore’s law is “dead”, but the AI boom is being built on GPUs that get faster, smaller, and cheaper every year? Moore's law doesn't mean that things get smaller, faster and cheaper every year. It is specifically that number of transistors doubles about every two years. That ceased to be ~reliably the case about 15 years ago, becoming more modest. > So much faith in solar panels…and the mention of ship power as a metric, but no mention of the nuclear power plants that actually power modern (or heck, even aging) fleets for shockingly long periods of time. Eh? Nuclear ships are a rounding error. There are effectively none of them, versus oil-powered ships. > They are however trying to build or restart their own nuclear power plants… I'm endlessly fascinated by this, because, based on real-life nuclear build-out times, it _has_ to be a scam; if you're building a data centre now, there's just no point talking about nuclear, because building a nuclear plant will take 15 to 20 years, by which time the data centre will be obsolete. But it's unclear what the scam _is_.