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		ViewTrick1002 36 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors a... We’ve been trying to build ”SMR”s since the 1950s and a bunch has been built throughout the decades. https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/the-forgotten-history-of-small... The problem is also: who pays for the hundreds of prototypes before the ”process” has worked?

johncolanduoni 36 days ago [–]

I guess the answer might be hyperscalers that want cheap electricity to run LLM inference. They’re already throwing tens of billions at AI, what’s a few billion more to have a chance at super cheap energy for their new data centers?

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