AI is giving us a nuclear renaissance: Can it help solve the climate crisis too?
Live MintNuclear energy was the artificial intelligence of the 1960s. Despite its known dangers—Hiroshima and Nagasaki were quite recent back then—there was great optimism over how nuclear technology could change the world with abundant cheap energy, and free humanity from the tyranny of fossil fuels. Capturing this zeitgeist, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his famous ‘Atoms for Peace’ speech at the United Nations in 1953, promising nuclear power for clean and abundant energy rather than for death and destruction. Microsoft president Brad Smith has highlighted the potential of repurposing existing coal-fired power plants with advanced nuclear technologies, saying: “You can cut the cost of constructing a new nuclear plant by a third by converting these plants, and we can use the power of cloud computing, AI and data to accelerate all of that." Big Tech now has an incentive to invest hugely in clean energy, led by nuclear power, and has an equally large need to get energy for its AI dream.
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