Nuclear-Powered AI: The Energy Shift Tech Giants Are Betting On.

Yup, you got that right. Nukes. And AI. Together. Whoa! Now, don’t go freakin’ out thinking about robots taking over the world – at least, not yet. But we are lookin’ at a potentially ginormous change in how those tech companies get their power – and this change could, like, totally reshape everything, from our fight against that whole global warming thing to, well, the future of, you know, thinking machines.

We’ve all heard for, like, forever about how AI is booming. Self-driving cars? Duh. Doctor stuff that’s personalized just for you? Totally. And, hello, those scary-accurate suggestions on Netflix that make you think, “Is my TV watching me?”

AI’s everywhere, and it’s changing our lives like crazy, faster than we can even keep up. But – and here’s the kicker – there’s a little secret nobody likes to talk about: AI is an energy monster. It’s a super-duper, colossal, ravenous energy beast!

Just imagine this for a sec. Every single time you bug Siri with some silly question, or when Google magically turns words from one language into another, or when Netflix tells you to watch just one more episode (yeah, right!), you’re using up some power from these gigantic data centers.

I mean, picture buildings as big as a bunch of football fields crammed with computers, whirring, and buzzing, nonstop, day in, day out, doing more calculations than you can shake a stick at. And all that buzzin’ and whirrin’? It takes juice. A whole honkin’ lot of it.

And, where does the energy come from up until now? The typical things, coal and that natural gas stuff. As AI’s gettin’ bigger and bigger, well so is it’s big carbon shadow.

Yikes! It is now being bantered about that teaching just one big AI model, just one, can create pollution comparable to that of five whole automobiles for as long they live. Five! Insane, am I right?! And totally messed up.

So, the big tech honchos – you know, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and that Facebook gang (or Meta, whatever they’re calling themselves now) – are starting to get, um, kinda twitchy.

See, they all made these super-duper important promises about going, carbon something or another, y’know? But, well, how in the world are they gonna do that and keep feeding the AI beast that needs more and more and more power, pretty much every dang day?

That is is why, out of seemingly nowhere comes a white night, enter the unlikely hero: nuclear energy. It’s had some public relations hiccups over the years, however the tech titans have deemed it viable.

Yep, that thing everybody associates with scary explosions and fish with extra eyeballs. Yeah, but just hang on, ’cause nuclear’s makin’ a comeback, and it looks like it just might be the key to powering all that AI without turning the Earth into a crispy critter.

Nuclear Power? Seriously, Right Now?

Okay, it’s true, Nuclear’s got a real bum wrap. Everyone freaked out ’bout the really bad reactor explosions, well that kinda sticks in people’s memory. But… that ain’t the whole picture. Today’s Nuke plants, super, crazy safe. Layer and layers and layers, kinda like the largest layer cake ever… that can not have a ‘whoops’ event. And check it… carbon exhaust…zero… nada… like, invisible.

And, another neat thing about Nuclear compared to, oh I dunno, sunshine and breezes? Reliably constant. Sun does a hide and seek all day long. Breeze plays the now-you-feel-me-now-you don’t games. However the nuclear folks? Well they are making juice when ya need it. That steady-Eddie supply is vital, I tell ya.

Let’s go over it again, to recap.

• AI guzzles down electrical power more that someone crossing the desert loves fresh water!
• Fossil stuff? Puts the “hurt” on our only home.
• All of the super brain folks, running the computers? Yeah… about that ‘bein’ good’…
• Power by atom? Well… zero gasses when it is pumpin’ the electricity, steady-eddie delivery, safer than your car… and…

See? Starting to get the picture? Lookin’ a lot like that, a primo match.

And, So, The Really Big Tech Brains. Piles of cash they do possess. Where does it go…?

So, like I keep repeatin’, this is not like some kind of a daydream. Big-wig companies ain’t sitting and contemplatin’ like, they are buying nuclear… big time… with stacks and stacks of cash.

• Microsoft: How’s about Microsoft and the ‘splitting atoms for energy company’ Helion, making an agreement for ‘lectrifiying via atom for Microsoft and fusion no less… by end of the 2020’s, for around 50 big megawatts.
• Amazon: The 800-zillion-pound-gorilla, ummm… computer-in-the-sky (the cloud, get it? Guffaw, snort, chortle!) company… AWS (Amazon Web Services… what is that… sound it out…). Anyways. These jokers, well… quite the buyers of other company these days, are they. Oh yeah… that Pennsylvania place, bought a data thingy campus there… right smack-dab next to a… now get this… a Two and One-half, giggaaa-watt nuke-yoo-lar gizmo! (Oh yeah… a “Talen Energy’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant”. Co-inky dink. Not. Yep. Direct and instant electricity, that’s a big time “Oh Yessir, that’s our intention alright…”
• Google: So far no big bang investment… But alotta gab and hinting… 24 on… 7 day… “No Carbon Energy”. Yep. They got, Fervo, doin’ hot rocks electricity deep underground… BUT… wise ol’ buzzards say eventually. And. Whispers and winks of bein’, ahem, ‘approachable’, nuclear gettin’ inta the game, and on and on…
• Mr. Open…OpenAI…or Sam’s Open thingamajig. Before you knew it in twenty one of the ’20s’ era… way long ago, ha. Boss man, current Boss man of Open whacha-call it… nearly four hundred big dollar bills invested… there too. What was it now, um, smaller bang-splittin’… fission. Right. Smaller packages… yeah, um Helion Energy, was it…? Right. Them.

And it ain’t slowin’ down. Wee baby start-up… pop, pop, pop… here they come, sproutin’ outta the earth like crab grass! Newfangled contraptions, little-bitty ‘atomic splitters’, ‘safer’, ‘thrifty’… on and on! SMR‘s they call ’em.

SMR what nows…? The Itty-Bitty Atom-Splitters

Big nuclear towers? Gigantic monsters! Cha-ching, Cha-Ching. Costly and a super big, pain-in-the-old wazoo, buildin’ that sucker. Tough sale. Yep.

So. S-M-R… made for itty-bitty! Modular doohickeys, factory to home, delivered… and Poof. Less. Expensive. Less Time. Lots more of those ‘layer cake’ safety thingies, (but… no oopsies).

Yeah. SMR… iPhones of the split-the-atom world… all over those dinosaur contraptions… they are! The secret formula? Might just be. AI data places… yeah, there too.

Here we are. Chips down. Small Reactor gizmos, nothin’ but. Old school… years and gobs and oodles of dead Presidents build time, gone. New time… pop-em-up, like popcorn. Start out slow, build-up. “S” is for Spread…risk and money…out! Smart.

Uh-Ohs, Hiccups, and the “Yeah-But” Folks

Okay, okay, it ain’t all lollipops and rainbows, I hear ya. Ol’ Nukey, yup, still gotta some gremlins. People? Scared spitless, most of ’em.

• Trash Talk: That nuclear garbage? Stays ‘hot’ for, a gillion years. Put it where? Ooooeeee! Fights ‘n’ Science… no answers for a looooong time, yep. Less, true. Compared, still. Worrisome, sure… yep.
• Oopsies, Bang, Oh Dear!: Layers of… layers and layers (got cake..?), Still, Yep, an “OOPS!”. Fresh minds. Yup. Worry and Stare-downs! Certain… sure thing.
• Cost-N-Time, Y’know?: Less money and less waiting for them SMR guys, supposedly. Investment still, not penny-ante. Big. And Papers to go-go. Slow, Big and lots, headache… long process!
• Bad Uses. Okay. Atom’s magic power. Good…AI Stuff! Baad… well, booms and booms… So-oo… Nuke stuff ‘everywhere’. Mmm… might could = more booms and… boom bad stuff spreadin’ ’round. Yikes.

Yep, yessir. No sugar coat… these… legit. problems! Solve ’em, for sure. Right Now, up front and personal… “Here is my shiny bright side”: zero gasses for pollution… works day and night, AI going full blast-off potential. Can not be a dummy ’bout it!

Political-Geo Games and Shenanigans.

Now… This AI nuke… dance. It’s not just tech-and-happy trees stuff. Countries want power.

Country that figures this nuke-y-ai first, huge, big-time head-start. Powerful, Faster, Thrifty-er, AI things, whatever that will really mean! Well, economics-and muscles, top to bottom. Who rules the roost, makes big things, flex-and-scare games, for darn sure

The US-of-A, Red Dragon (er… the Panda now, y’know), Big Bear and some Euro folks. Fight- fight -fightin’. Top prize is ‘way-up there. Scrappy and hard ball.

Nuclear and A.I., peekin’ to what will be
Future crystal ball, here it is… kinda guessin, what we may see:

• Company Dough Flowin’, where? Nuke.”: For gosh sakes, lots and lots of those Big tech brain folks and moola. Into atom stuff, ‘direct’ and the buddy-buddy way… sure-thing
• Mini Nukes. Soon”: Guessin’… oh, five, and then another five for years count. Wee, SMR…doin’ its stuff. Important, showcase thing-y for safety- and it works good… See!
• *Pencil pushers..paper. Not-so-fast!: Countries, World…gotta figure all them “okays”… streamlined…but, safety ‘never get small’, kay?.
• *Scare to share. Educate and motivate. Big brains- talk-n- teach and hold hands so the scare goes, poof! …about them scary atoms
• Be-Friend. No Fight: The Nukes and them sun-shiny and whoosh, whoosh things together friends. Better…yup
• Whooosh!, AI with the assist: Crazy… AI makin’ ‘tom-splitter better- safer. Guess ‘n stop, before the Oopises!

*Data Places..and ‘way more, and beyond!

‘Kay…Sooo… AI juice rooms. Nuclear… big boom. Lots and lots… and go-goes way further than, only that.

• Water..Desert Dry”: Got Nukes and Heat? Take out the ouchy-salt stuff from the Sea-water, for good drinkin’… Clean, thirst gone!
• Fire Water…er…H’ Thing, fuel.”: Use that hot stuff ‘nuclear heat’ to make ‘hydrogen. Clean burn stuff, go-go power for… well… go go stuff! Homes- and go again, “Lectricity too.
• *Make-n-bake Big Nuke Hot-Hot-Hot! Factories make things that need “way up-hot. Cement and the tough metal… use Nuke and pollution, go down.
• **Where ’bouts is ‘at”? Way out? Need juice, right?:**Micro nukies for lonely and quiet…wayyy-out places.

Wow… and more! Clean-stuff, safe stuff, for ‘lots-and-lots’, from… “go AI *baby!'” and “make things”. Atom Split way, beyond Just one way

Morals… and that stuff that can twist up minds, a knot.*

Yup. This, Nuke and smart machine. “Ethics”, deep-breath thoughts…yup-yup.

• **One guy rich-Other guy, broke. Who’s gettin the good stuff”?. Share is ‘care’, but what if ‘all for one guy”?
• Machines Do Stuff… Peeps, lose job? Ohhhh boy.. “How. Fix it?!”:Machines learn ‘n work ‘n think… no human. Not happy!
• Good-n-Smart or….Evil’ N’Stupid AI. Bias.. and not nice.. in ‘and.. .out? AI no good and amplify! No Way!
• **Humans lose Power…whooaaa?!. If machine are runnin’ themselves…? Do we control…? Good question…good!

Not simple stuff! “Whoaaa”, got some puzzlin, and deep think- thoughts, goin’ on. Sooner…than- ‘whoosh! (snap of the finger)!’, Talk, no delays or head under sand. Right? Yep.

Finally: the Now, Today, and…

The Nuke…And-er, Thinking-Machine Thing… it is Wild-And-Wonderful… Crazy Cool potential.. Like a mash up of a brain that calculates… and energy ‘zilla. BIG.

Ooodles of promise… but, ummm, lots of ‘Watch Outs!” Easy it is not.. the way ‘head. But “Better Days!?” Clean.. safe… ‘power *to ya’…. Think and figure by AIs.. power too big! To shoo-shoo it away? No way!

Today-time. Smarts with, ‘tom-energy… Mix-em!. The dividey line… Poof!, (real/pretend/sci-fi movies?).

Need, Plan now! “Think-before” doing stuff! Careful steps and “listen and help people”. (Remember that scare-thing?) Use-It and think of how.

Big tech-tycoons got big dough on this thing.. AI- ‘tom power-up. Others… Watch-listen ‘n be smart.. Not a test. This is the new today. So get goin’, see. AI-Nukey doo dads are pound-pound-pound on that door to ‘morrow land. Sounds simple, down-to-Earth and.. um US-sounding ‘right?… well good. Listen to those ‘sounds.. and be smart… Be ready for that. That wild ride… it has a seat, you see?

See this good external article: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h1106qfc1l

See another good article in our blog: https://techforgewave.com/the-dark-side-of-ai-wake-the-hell-up-people/