Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal

Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by EasyMark on Friday September 20, 2024 @10:17AM (#41602238)

There are huge downsides though because moving power generation further and further from where it’s used opens you up to more disruption from terrorist attacks on the grid (and cyber attacks) unless you also do less centralized production which is going to be more expensive.

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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by Ancapistani on Friday September 20, 2024 @12:42PM (#41603629)

> moving power generation further and further from where it’s used opens you up to more disruption from terrorist attacks on the grid

Not arguing, just asking - how is this different from how the Internet works?

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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by jacoblambda on Saturday September 21, 2024 @11:50AM (#41610718)

That's the thing. HVDC works better in a decentralised manner. You don't have clocking to deal with so instead it's mainly a matter of just hooking power production and power draw up to what is basically a big cross-country busbar.

And you can connect as many bridging connections as you want without having to worry about phase or desync. Instead more connections generally just means power goes from production to consumption along more efficient paths.

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