News Meta turns to nuclear power for AI training — asking for developer proposals for small modular reactors or larger nuclear solutions

[Admin]

Meta is looking for a partner to build nuclear power plants for its AI needs.

Meta turns to nuclear power for AI training — asking for developer proposals for small modular reactors or larger nuclear solutions : Read more

 

[Gururu]

Its almost too funny how we using nuclear for AI and soon AI will use nuclear for us.

 

[jp7189]

A gigawatt is a lot of juice. A single SMR produces about 1/3 of that. It sounds like the colossus AI supercomputer uses about 0.15 gigawatts. Meta is looking for up to 4 gigawatts? That's about 25,000 acres of solar panels.. give or take.

 

[palladin9479]

And thus Skynet is born.

 

[SomeoneElse23]

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[gg83]

A gigawatt is a lot of juice. A single SMR produces about 1/3 of that. It sounds like the colossus AI supercomputer uses about 0.15 gigawatts. Meta is looking for up to 4 gigawatts? That's about 25,000 acres of solar panels.. give or take.

Great breakdown. What kinda junk is Zuck dreaming up now. Oh, it's to run his stupid crud-verse.

 

[LolaGT]

AI or not, what we need are many more of these new gen reactors, dozens and dozens of them, unless people enjoy rolling blackouts.
We really won't have a choice, unless we all want coal burners in our back yards. Solar and wind are not going to save us, fusion isn't happening any time soon and we are a long ways away from a Dyson sphere.
Fission will save us.

 

[GoofyOne]

Y'all have it all wrong ... the AI will just use humans to power itself. Here comes the Matrix!!!

 

[stonecarver]

Okay I'm just trying to get some kind of idea of lets say Elon Musks 100,000 H-100 GPU's would cost on the grid.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-i...rently-at-over-100-000-h100-gpus-and-counting


The Nvidia H-100 consumes 350 watts x 100,000.

100,000 H-100's per hour is 35,000,000 watts per hour x 24 hours = 840,000,000 watt hours per day

Take that 840,000,000 24 hour number and x it by 365 days = 20,160,000,000 watt hours per year.

Just to pick an average to bounce off lets say the average household uses 30 kilowatt hours a day.

30 kilowatt x 365 = 10,950 for a household per year.

10,950 house hold kilowatts divided by the H-100's of 20,160,000,000 would feed
1,841,095.8 homes for a year.

So one million, eight hundred forty one thousand, and ninety five point eight homes per year.

Forgive me if I'm getting numbers off over a conversion here or there but mind boggling to say the least.