Yann LeCun (Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta):<p><pre><code> AI datacenters will be built next to energy production sites that can produce
gigawatt-scale, low-cost, low-emission electricity continuously.
Basically, next to nuclear power plants.
The advantage is that there is no need for expensive and wasteful
long-distance distribution infrastructure.
Note: yes, solar and wind are nice and all, but they require lots of land
and massive-scale energy storage systems for when there is too little sun
and/or wind. Neither simple nor cheap.
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Link to LeCun's comment on X here:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41621097">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41621097</a><p>See also:<p>Microsoft paying $100/MWh to restart Three Mile Island nuclear power plant:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601443">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601443</a>