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Hey there, short wavers.
Regina Barber here.
And today I'm joined by NPR's most radioactive correspondent, Jeff Brumfield.
Hey, Jeff.
Hi, Gina.
Okay, so Jeff, we joke about this because you cover all things nuclear.
You also sometimes cover artificial intelligence or AI.
And recently those two sides of my beat have been coming much closer together because the big tech companies who are all leading this AI revolution, I'm talking about Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, they're also making big investments in nuclear power right now.
Now.
And they're doing it because they need a lot more juice to run their AI programs.
Some researchers estimate that a search using AI uses as much as 10 times the power of a normal Google search.
Yeah, I mean, when I think of AI and nuclear power together, it just sounds like this like dystopian sci fi movie.
Yeah, I mean, in all the movies, you know, Terminator, whatever, when the AI gets a hold of the nukes, it all goes wrong.