Big tech needs to find more energy-efficient ways to run AI data centers, and direct their major energy investments, along with the government, to clean renewable energy that doesn’t make our ...
AI’s thirst for energy sealed the deal between Microsoft and Constellation on the plant, where memories of a partial meltdown ...
Now, 45 years later, the plant’s operator is in talks to reopen it, with one customer purchasing all its power: Microsoft. The 1979 partial meltdown of the power plant at Three Mile Island was ...
Three Mile Island's Unit 1 is set to reopen in a $1.6 billion deal with Microsoft, signaling a potential nuclear power ...
Microsoft is making good progress on its PPA with Constellation to reopen Three Mile Island, but it's not all smooth sailing ...
Constellation announced last month that it would revive the half-century-old Three Mile Island with the purpose of fueling Microsoft’s data centers. Microsoft is expected to pay at least $100 a ...
The owner of the closed Three Mile Island nuclear plant hopes to have a new license – and a new name for the plant – to ...
With the grid facing strain and more energy-hungry giants sitting down at the table, ensuring fair contribution isn’t just ...
Last month, Microsoft struck a deal with the owners of Three Mile Island to reopen the plant to ... Ironically, the enormous appetite for power from AI data centers may ultimately reduce ...
Google signs nuclear power deal with startup Kairos and experts warn about the importance of new sources of energy for facing ...
THREE MILE ISLAND, Pennsylvania, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Constellation Energy (CEG.O), opens new tab has ordered a main power transformer for the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor it is attempting to ...
Three Mile Island ... electricity use by Microsoft's data center in the region. A recent jump in U.S. electricity demand, driven in part by Big Tech's energy-intensive AI data center expansion ...