Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for data centers
Nuke Will Be Restarted To Power Microsoft Data Center Jordan Valinsky / CNN : Three Mile Island is reopening and selling its power to Microsoft Reuters : Constellation to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Microsoft AI power deal Enacy Mapakame / Cryptopolitan : Microsoft in 20yr deal to reopen Three Mile Island to power its AI energy needs Matthew Zeitlin / Heatmap News : Microsoft's Mega Deal Is a Massive Victory for Nuclear Power Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal : Three Mile Island's Nuclear Plant to Reopen, Help Power Microsoft's AI Centers Prabhat Ranjan Mishra / Interesting Engineering : Plant that experienced US' worst commercial nuclear accident to reopen soon Christian Britschgi / Reason : The Owner of Three Mile Island Is Turning the Nuclear Power Plant Back on to Fuel Microsoft's AI Operations Andrew Tarantola / How-To Geek : Microsoft Wants to Reboot Three Mile Island to Power Its AI Data Centers Alex Wilhelm / Cautious Optimism : The OpenAI math maths Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Microsoft cash to help reignite Three Mile Island atomic plant Lucas Nolan / Breitbart : Microsoft Plans to Revive Infamous Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Feed Insatiable AI Power Requirements Brad Plumer / New York Times : Three Mile Island Plans to Reopen as Demand for Nuclear Power Grows Jennifer Mattson / Fast Company : Nuclear plant Three Mile Island is reopening to power Microsoft AI's growing energy demands Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware : Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions Peter Hall / Pennsylvania Capital-Star : Three Mile Island nuclear power plant will reopen in deal to power Microsoft data centers Frank Landymore / Futurism : Microsoft Working to Reopen Three Mile Island to Power Huge AI Datacenters Brian Martucci / Utility Dive : Constellation plans 2028 restart of Three Mile Island unit 1, spurred by Microsoft PPA Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast : Three Mile Island Set to Restart to Power Microsoft's AI Data Centers Joe Ilardi / Baltimore Business Journal : Constellation to restart Three Mile Island reactor for tech giant's AI Matt Oliver / Telegraph : Nuclear plant to restart on Three Mile Island decades after worst disaster in US history Chris Morris / Fortune : Microsoft strikes deal to reopen Three Mile Island, site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, to power its AI data centers Kate Seamons / Newser : Three Mile Island Isn't Dead After All Chris McKay / Maginative : Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Reopen, Powering Microsoft Data Centers Mark Moore / International Business Times : Power Company Plans To Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Callie Patteson / Washington Examiner : Three Mile Island nuclear plant to reopen to meet Microsoft AI demand Doug Cunningham / UPI : Constellation to restart Three Mile Island's nuclear power reactor in energy deal with Microsoft John Callaham / Neowin : Microsoft will use energy from the Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power its data centers Sebastian Moss / DatacenterDynamics : Three Mile Island nuclear power plant to return as Microsoft signs 20-year, 835MW AI data center PPA Rocio Fabbro / Quartz : Microsoft needs so much power for AI that Three Mile Island is reopening Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News : Nuclear Names Surge After Three Mile Island Planned Restart To Power Microsoft Data Centers CBS News : U.S. nuclear plant Three Mile Island to reopen, sell power to Microsoft Larry Dignan / Constellation Research : Constellation Energy, Microsoft ink nuclear power pact for AI data center Brady Doran / WHTM-TV : Constellation Energy unveils plan to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor Tom Carter / Business Insider : Three Mile Island nuclear plant to reopen — to power Microsoft's AI push Tech Xplore : US nuclear plant Three Mile Island to reopen, sell power to Microsoft Threads: Dr. Pete Meyers / @dr_p3t3 : Re-opening Three Mile Island to power Bing is the shittiest dystopian novel premise I've ever heard. Mastodon: Paul-Gabriel Wiener / @WearsHats@realsocial.life : Well, this seems ominous. — #Microsoft is restarting the nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island (the most infamous nuclear disaster on US soil), and will purchase all its electricity (enough for 800,000 homes) for 20 years, all so they can run an #AI data center. (A data center located on TMI.) … John Moltz / @Moltz@mastodon.social : I hear you, but if we don't spin up the faulty nuclear plant, how will we get wrong answers to political questions and recipes involving rocks and glue? It's like you're not thinking. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... John Regehr / @regehr@mastodon.social : definitely getting not-good vibes from this; the three mile island meltdown happened not far from where I was growing up at the time 😬 — https://www.theverge.com/... Oliver Andrich / @oliverandrich@social.tchncs.de : „Nice" move by Microsoft. Sending a big „fuck you" to future generations. — And what a euphemism to call a nuclear power plant the ‘Crane Clean Energy Center’, which was shut down in 1979 due to an incident. And where are those Small Modular Reactors that Bill Gates raves about? … Kee Hinckley / @nazgul@infosec.exchange : Scientists: We need to stop consuming so much energy or we'll destroy civilization. — Tech: Hold my beer. — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Esther Schindler / @estherschindler@newsie.social : Today in “What could possibly go wrong?” https://arstechnica.com/... @noctuaminervae@toot.si : Microsoft, BlackRock, and the Emirates team up to revive shuttered nuclear accident sites to feed their voracious AI beasts. — I wonder if this is one of those movies where humanity eventually starts fighting back. — https://arstechnica.com/... https://arstechnica.com/... HishamZerriffi / @hishamzerriffi@fediscience.org : Did not have “tech giant restarting nuke plant where meltdown happened to fuel hallucination machines” on my bingo card. — But, hey, it's 2024 and reality's scriptwriters are throwing everything against the wall. So why not. — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Eleanor Saitta / @dymaxion@infosec.exchange : You know what would make AI even better? If we brought THREE MILE ISLAND BACK ONLINE TO POWER IT. — At this point it's just a standup routine about the anthropocene. — https://www.bloomberg.com/... Eryk Salvaggio / @CyberneticForests@assemblag.es : They're reviving Three Mile Island to power the next generation of Microsoft Word. A nod to the scaling myth too, this time for energy: “The energy industry cannot be the reason China or Russia beats us in AI.” Beating us to ... what, exactly? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Eric Budd / @ericmbudd@toot.bldrweb.org : “The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania will invest $1.6 billion to revive it, agreeing to sell all the output to Microsoft Corp. as the tech titan seeks carbon-free electricity for data centers to power the artificial intelligence boom.” — https://www.bloomberg.com/... Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social : What could possibly go wrong? — Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... X: Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin : Wind and solar were driven by investment and production subsides and tech company buying power, now we have that same mix for nuclear, what's next? Uprates? Restarting plants? New nuclear? https://heatmap.news/... Meltem Demirors / @melt_dem : microsoft bought 20 years of power at $800M / yr or $16B for one data center larry ellison said oracle is building a 800 mw and 1 gw data center returns to energy ($xle) outpaced returns to tech ($xlk) by 2x since the pandemic thermoeconomics enjoyooors are ecstatic [image] Brendan Dolan-Gavitt / @moyix : “Microsoft is reopening the Three Mile Island nuclear plant” is not really something I would have been able to comprehend in the 90s, or possibly today Bojan Tunguz / @tunguz : This what finally defeating the decels looks like. 💪☢️ Andrew Curran / @andrewcurran_ : The Three Mile Island nuclear plant is being restarted. All 835 megawatts will go to power Microsoft's data centers. This is both the first time a U.S. nuclear plant will come back into service after being decommissioned, and that an entire plant's output will go to one customer. [image] Sunny Madra / @sundeep : Incredible to see that AI workloads will help reverse course on decades of bad nuclear policy. Antonio Regalado / @antonioregalado : For people who grew up in the 1970s, “Three Mile Island” gives the same shiver as “Hindenburg” or “9/11”. But what's truly incredible is to see nuclear energy get re-booted due to AI-driven datacenter demands. [image] Dan Primack / @danprimack : 3 Mile Island being restarted to power artificial intelligence must be a 1980s film script that never got made. Mark Nelson / @energybants : BREAKING: BLOCKBUSTER MICROSOFT DATACENTER DEAL RESURRECTING THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR PLANT Microsoft and nuclear plant owner Constellation have agreed to a massive, unprecedented deal to restart the closed Three Mile Island by 2028 to power its datacenters, per the New York [image] David Ulevitch / @davidu : Wow, Constellation Energy will spend nearly $2b to reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant to power MSFT AI datacenter needs. If the administration was in the drivers seat instead of power co MBAs we'd have that money going to new, modern gigawatt power plants. [image] Brad Smith / @bradsmi : Today's agreement with @CEGCleanEnergy marks an important step in @Microsoft's efforts to help bring more carbon-free energy to the electrical grid and meet our commitments to be carbon negative by 2030. https://www.microsoft.com/... Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Microsoft wants Three Mile Island to fuel its AI power needs. Microsoft has signed a 20-year deal to exclusively access 835 megawatts of energy from a revived nuclear plant to power its data centers. Full details below 👇 https://www.theverge.com/... Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjacob : I'm not anti nuclear but rebooting THREE MILE ISLAND because Sam Altman needs more gigawatts to figure out how many r's are in “strawberry” is a remarkable AI bubble milestone. https://www.bloomberg.com/... LinkedIn: Christopher Stephens : Power and compute will be the biggest sources of tension and opportunity in the GenAI era. On one hand, MSFT buying a nuclear plant makes so much sense. … Ville Tulkki : Few years back I was told by a native English speaking colleague that I should not use word “shuttered” in relation to shut down nuclear power plants … Peter Steiner : Microsoft signs a deal to bring a nuclear reactor back online for 20 years, solely to power their AI data centers. … Jerrold Vincent : It's an exciting time to be in nuclear and AI! Great news from Constellation, just a few years ago they were forced to shut down plants … Robert Ong : I met a gentleman at a conference last month who works in the data center industry. He mentioned that current U.S. energy consumption attributed … Serge Tismen : Constellation Energy is investing $1.6 billion to restart the Three Mile Island #reactor, exclusively supplying Microsoft with #carbonfreepower for two decades. … Forums: r/politics : Microsoft AI Needs So Much Power It's Tapping Site of US Nuclear Meltdown r/Economics : Microsoft AI Needs So Much Power It's Restarting Site of US Nuclear Meltdown r/environment : Constellation Energy to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant, sell the power to Microsoft for AI r/technews : Microsoft AI Needs So Much Power It's Restarting Site of US Nuclear Meltdown r/mlscaling : Constellation Energy to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant, sell the power to Microsoft for AI r/economy : Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI. What could go wrong...?