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And recently, those two sides of my beat have been coming much closer together because the big tech companies who are all leading this AI revolution—I'm talking about Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon— They're also making big investments in nuclear power right now. And they're doing it because they need a lot more juice to run their AI programs.
And recently, those two sides of my beat have been coming much closer together because the big tech companies who are all leading this AI revolution—I'm talking about Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon— They're also making big investments in nuclear power right now. And they're doing it because they need a lot more juice to run their AI programs.
And recently, those two sides of my beat have been coming much closer together because the big tech companies who are all leading this AI revolution—I'm talking about Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon— They're also making big investments in nuclear power right now. And they're doing it because they need a lot more juice to run their AI programs.
Some researchers estimate that a search using AI uses as much as 10 times the power of a normal Google search.
Some researchers estimate that a search using AI uses as much as 10 times the power of a normal Google search.
Some researchers estimate that a search using AI uses as much as 10 times the power of a normal Google search.
Yeah, I mean, in all the movies, you know, Terminator or whatever, when the AI gets a hold of the nukes, it all goes wrong. But in real life, we got a way to go because before AI can somehow use its nuclear power to destroy us all, Silicon Valley has to remake the nuclear industry, which has been, frankly, stagnant for years.
Yeah, I mean, in all the movies, you know, Terminator or whatever, when the AI gets a hold of the nukes, it all goes wrong. But in real life, we got a way to go because before AI can somehow use its nuclear power to destroy us all, Silicon Valley has to remake the nuclear industry, which has been, frankly, stagnant for years.
Yeah, I mean, in all the movies, you know, Terminator or whatever, when the AI gets a hold of the nukes, it all goes wrong. But in real life, we got a way to go because before AI can somehow use its nuclear power to destroy us all, Silicon Valley has to remake the nuclear industry, which has been, frankly, stagnant for years.
And is it really going to help with the big electricity crunch that's coming along with our AI revolution?
And is it really going to help with the big electricity crunch that's coming along with our AI revolution?
And is it really going to help with the big electricity crunch that's coming along with our AI revolution?
Yeah. So this all goes back 10 years or more when big tech companies started making some big commitments over climate change.
Yeah. So this all goes back 10 years or more when big tech companies started making some big commitments over climate change.
Yeah. So this all goes back 10 years or more when big tech companies started making some big commitments over climate change.
You know, all these companies accept that climate change is real and they've pledged to reduce or eliminate their greenhouse gas emissions. And I wanted to dig into those pledges, so I called up Ted Nordhaus. He's executive director of the Breakthrough Institute, a Bay Area nonprofit that tracks some of these commitments.