The Owner of Three Mile Island Is Turning the Nuclear Power Plant Back on to Fuel Microsoft's AI Operations

Nuclear Power

Christian Britschgi | 9.20.2024 11:55 AM

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Today Bloomberg reports that Constellation Energy Corp., the owner of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, plans to turn back on one of the plant's shuttered reactors. Microsoft has agreed to purchase 100 percent of the plant's output for the next 20 years to feed its power-hungry AI operations.

Constellation had closed one of Three Mile Island's reactors in 2019. But Microsoft's surging power demands,........

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