That's my key take-away from reading this.
I hope the majority of this is going to be powered by nuclear or hydro. That's a lot of power.
The waste problem still has not been solved. Instead the USG threw up their hands and walked away. I don’t know how other countries are addressing it. We have a temporary (read 2-3 generation) solution we can fall back on, but this is a can worse than climate change we are kicking towards future generations.
I am fully aware of advances in nuclear tech but that doesn’t solve the problem, it just delays the tipping point
It gets sealed in fuck-off huge concrete cylinders, and the volume of waste compared to the energy generated, it's just a no brainer. Also depending on reactor type the waste can be recycled.
Are you referring to the 40 year "service life" of the containment units? Or something else?
That’s just nonsense. Even if we turn a large area into a radioactive waste dump, that problem pales in comparison to the massive external and internal migrations, food crop failure and wars that climate change will cause in our lifetimes.
I mean, they wouldn't be if I had any money invested in Nvidia (I foretold their rise twenty years ago, but then as today I was too poor to keep any investments, in Nvidia or otherwise).
But, in general, I think we are going to keep building ocean-boiling amounts of compute, which we are going to use to do many grisly things and some good ones. I hope I can avoid the bad stuff and benefit from the good, despite it being statistically unlikely. It's called hope :-) .
