Why Microsoft made a deal to help restart Three Mile Island
WEB4 days ago — In March, the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan got a loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office to the tune of over $1.5 billion to help restart. Palisades shut ...
Three Mile Island is reopening and selling its power to Microsoft
WEBSep 20, 2024 — 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...
Three Mile Island nuclear power plant will reopen for Microsoft
WEBSep 20, 2024 — Three Mile Island, the Pennsylvania power plant that was the scene of the worst commercial nuclear accident in American history, will reopen and sell power to Microsoft.
Microsoft’s Three Mile Island Deal Signals a Broader Nuclear
WEB5 days ago — The number of operating nuclear reactors in the US peaked at 112 in 1990 and declined to 92 by 2022, and the most recently built reactors in the US—at Vogtle power plant in Georgia—took more ...
Microsoft's Three Mile Island nuclear power deal | The Week
WEB6 days ago — By Theara Coleman, The Week US. published 24 September 2024. With artificial intelligence putting a damper on its clean energy goals, Microsoft is turning to nuclear power in a first-of-its-kind ...
New life proposed for Three Mile Island supplying power to Microsoft …
WEBSep 20, 2024 — HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant said Friday that it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement that calls for tech giant Microsoft to buy the power to supply its data centers with carbon-free energy. The announcement by …
Microsoft signs deal to revive Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to ...
WEBSep 20, 2024 — The deal is a power purchase agreement (PPA) between Microsoft and the clean energy company Constellation to bring a 835-megawatt nuclear reactor back online. The plant was mothballed in 2019 due ...
Constellation Energy to restart Three Mile Island and sell the power …
WEBSep 20, 2024 — Constellation Energy plans to restart the Unit 1 reactor at Three Mile Island. It will sell the power to Microsoft to support the power needs of data centers. Unit 1 is separate from the reactor ...
Microsoft taps Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI
WEBSep 20, 2024 — Microsoft isn’t the only tech company turning to nuclear energy to power AI data centers. OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has called for an energy breakthrough in the form of nuclear power, and Amazon ...
Three Mile Island nuclear site to reopen in Microsoft deal - BBC
WEBSep 20, 2024 — America's Three Mile Island energy plant, the site of the worst nuclear accident in US history, is preparing to reopen as Microsoft looks for ways to satisfy its growing energy needs.