The Three Mile Island nuclear plant, home of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, would restart under a deal in which Microsoft purchases all its power.

👍👍👍

The tax breaks in the Inflation Recovery Act are crucial to making the deal economically feasible, according to Constellation. They provide a credit for every megawatt hour of nuclear energy produced.

lmao so instead of this funding the energy transition it’s just subsidizing the AI grift

  • AlbedoORourke [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    this

    There’s also the energy usage around obsessively gripe-posting about AI to consider.

    This is why we need a watts-used-per-unit-of-entertainment scale going so we can determine a treat hierarchy.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Reaching hard to run interference for those treat printers again, aren’t you?

      obsessively

      The billionaires that own the most environmentally devastating data centers and the techbro startups that keep propping up new ones will probably manage just fine without your stanning for them.

      • AlbedoORourke [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        Little known fact: If one can Musk-post exactly ten thousand times, it results in an insta-kill, freeing the denizens of earth from his tyrannical grasp once and for all.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              There’s also the energy usage around obsessively gripe-posting about AI to consider.

              This is why we need a watts-used-per-unit-of-entertainment scale going so we can determine a treat hierarchy.

              “Homie,” concern trolling in defense of treat printers and baiting me seems to be the sum of your post history.

              considered poor forum etiquette tsk tsk

              You already have the tech inevitabilism beliefs of a typical redditor (VR boardrooms everywhere, everyone wearing AR glasses, maybe even NFTs being the old hits that you probably also latched on to before) and now you’re doing the civility concern trolling attempts of a typical redditor too.

              Are you even a leftist? Proselytizing for billionaire tech grifts under “stop criticizing the ruling class and its excesses, it’s going to happen anyway” sophistry doesn’t seem like it.

              • AlbedoORourke [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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                2 months ago

                Leftism is obsessively AI and musk posting as if it were a full time job, and the more you do that the more leftist you are.

                Remind the people why you had to take like a year off from posting (during which time the site was noticeably less annoying). Was it because you’re too confrontational and were getting into to many heated arguments with people about stupid shit?

                  • AlbedoORourke [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                    5·
                    2 months ago

                    Honestly, it’s fascinating how committed you are to misinterpreting my intentions. I criticize obsessive AI griping not because I’m enchanted by techbro promises or “stanning for billionaires,” as you so colorfully put it. Rather, I’m urging a balanced perspective; it’s entirely possible to scrutinize the energy usage of various technologies—including gaming—without resorting to hyperbolic doomsaying or personal attacks.

                    You ask if I’m a leftist, as if one’s entire political alignment could be judged by their stance on a specific facet of technology. Engaging critically with technology doesn’t equate to blind support of its most excessive implementations.

                    Let’s use this platform to foster constructive debate, not sanctimonious sniping. We’re all here because we give a damn about the world and its future, right? Let’s not lose sight of that common ground.