{"id":172865,"date":"2023-09-26T16:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T21:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/microsoft-is-going-nuclear-to-power-its-ai-ambitions"},"modified":"2023-09-26T16:28:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T21:28:01","slug":"microsoft-is-going-nuclear-to-power-its-ai-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/microsoft-is-going-nuclear-to-power-its-ai-ambitions","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-is-going-nuclear-to-power-its-ai-ambitions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is looking at next-generation nuclear reactors to power its data centers and AI, according to a new job listing for someone to lead the way.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft thinks next-generation nuclear reactors can power its data centers and AI ambitions, according to a job listing for a principal program manager who\u2019ll lead the company\u2019s nuclear energy strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Data centers already use a hell of a lot of electricity, which could thwart the company\u2019s climate goals unless it can find clean sources of energy. Energy-hungry AI makes that an even bigger challenge for the company to overcome. AI dominated Microsoft\u2019s Surface event last week.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Microsoft is hiring someone to lead its nuclear strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is looking at next-generation nuclear reactors to power its data centers and AI, according to a new job listing for someone to lead the way. Microsoft thinks next-generation nuclear reactors can power its data centers and AI ambitions, according to a job listing for a principal program manager who\u2019ll lead the company\u2019s nuclear energy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,873,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-nuclear-energy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}