As Microsoft prepares to reopen Three Mile Island’s reactor to fuel its AI-powered future, the implications for the energy market and investors are profound. Nuclear energy, once considered a relic of the past, is making a comeback thanks to its ability to provide reliable, carbon-free power...
And there’s also rising concern about the increased energy demand on the power grid, in part from tech giants looking to power data centers like those needed to run AI. In announcing its deal with Microsoft, Constellation Energy, the owner of Three Mile Island Unit 1, also shared that ...
U.S. nuclear plantThree Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear accident in American history, is to restart operations in a deal to sell power to Microsoft, Constellation Energy said Friday. The firm announced the 20-year deal would involve the restart of the Unit 1 reactor, "which ope...
Constellation Energy to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant, sell the power to Microsoft for AI CNBC’s Pippa Stevens reports on the latest news regarding the provisioning of power. Fri, Sep 20 202411:56 AM EDT Pippa Stevens Top Videos watch now watch now VIDEO05:...
Earlier this fall, Microsoftrevealedthat it would be reactivating part of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant – the one that had a partial meltdown in the late 1970s – to acquire all of the output from one of its mothballed reactors. The reason? To satisfy the tech giant’s increasingly...
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In my last column (msdn.com/magazine/mt703429), I described how efforts to control the coolant loss event at the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear plant in 1979 were shaped by received wisdom from another domain—in this case, training that plant operators received in the U.S. Navy’s nuc...
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Three Mile Island, the site of worst nuclear disaster in the United States, is reopening and will exclusively sell the power to Microsoft as the company searches for energy sources to fuel its AI ambitions. Constellation Energy announced Friday that its Unit 1 reactor, which closed five years...
Microsoft, which took down the database days after the FTreportedon its use by companies, said: “The site was intended for academic purposes. It was run by an employee that is no longer with Microsoft and has since been removed.” ...