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Re:AI's Affordability Crisis by HDThoreaun on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @04:02PM (#48650520)
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 dns_snek on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @08:15AM (#48658565)
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Re:AI's Affordability Crisis by HDThoreaun on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @12:34PM (#48662353)
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.
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