Meta has faced a setback in its plan to build data centers run on nuclear power.
Bees are an important part of natural ecosystems and apparently Meta decided not to bother with disrupting it.
Its still allowed to use 300 megawatts from the Susquehanna plant but sought 480 megawatts.
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg has said a nuclear-powered data center has been thwarted by bees.David Paul Morris / Bloomberg / Getty
Large language models have to do more inference, or thinking, than a traditional search.
It could be useful in other ways, like improved ad-targeting.
The jury is still out on whether any of this investment in generative AI will bear fruit.
Output from AI often requires a lot of editing, which can negate any time savings.
Honestly, lets make ChatGPT searches more inefficient if it means we counterintuitively can help the environment.
Microsoft is payingbillions to recommission Pennsylvanias Three Mile Islandnuclear plant, which has been offline for five years.
Microsoft said earlier this year that itsemissions have grown at least 29%since 2020 due to AI investment.
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Two banks say Amazon has paused negotiations on some international data centers.
Meta Pissed Off Everyone With Poorly Redacted Docs
Meta is being very transparent on accident.
