Re:AI's Affordability Crisis
by dns_snek on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:16PM
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Nuclear energy is really cheap too... as long as you ignore CapEx, would you like to invest?
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Re:AI's Affordability Crisis
by HDThoreaun on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @04:02PM
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Marginal cost of nuclear is huge. Marginal cost of inference is much smaller. Capex in nuclear isn’t a fixed cost, it is the marginal cost.
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Re:AI's Affordability Crisis
by HDThoreaun on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @12:34PM
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The labs don’t have to stop r and d to become profitable. They just need more customers. This strategy doesn’t work in nuclear. Building a nuclear plant doesn’t mean you can scale it up to serve the whole world. Building an ai model does.