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Three Mile Island nuclear plant to restart for Microsoft data centers
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Microsoft has partnered with Constellation Energy to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, which was shut down after a major accident in 1979. Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6 billion to restart Unit 1 of the plant, with Microsoft agreeing to purchase all of the plant's energy output for 20 years starting in 2028. The deal is part of Microsoft's efforts to secure new energy sources for its data centers, which power cloud computing and AI models. The agreement comes as policymakers seek to address the country's fraying electric power supply.
This plant never should have been allowed to shut down... It will produce as much clean energy as all of the renewables [wind and solar] built in Pennsylvania over the last 30 years.
The energy industry cannot be the reason China or Russia beats us in AI.
This agreement is a major milestone in Microsoft's efforts to help decarbonize the grid in support of our commitment to become carbon negative.
Microsoft continues to collaborate with energy providers to develop carbon-free energy sources to help meet the grids' capacity and reliability needs.
It all depends on what's the state of the components, the systems.
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- 1.Microsoft
- 2.Constellation Energy
- 3.Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
- 4.Crane Clean Energy Center
- 5.Exelon
- 6.Georgia Power
- 7.Google
- 8.Idaho National Laboratory
- 9.International Energy Agency
- 10.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 11.Meta
- 12.US Department of Energy