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 Spencer Kimball / CNBC : Constellation Energy to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant, sell the power to Microsoft for AI Lawrence Bonk / Engadget : Microsoft plans to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear plant that narrowly avoided disaster Tom Warren / The Verge : Microsoft wants Three Mile Island to fuel its AI power needs Jean Leon / Android Headlines : Microsoft wants to reactivate the Three Mile Island nuclear plant 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 Prabhat Ranjan Mishra / Interesting Engineering : Plant that experienced US' worst commercial nuclear accident to reopen soon The Mirror : Three Mile Island: Major update on doomed power plant closed for 40 years after horror accident 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 Andrew Chapados / Blaze Media : Amazon posts job for nuclear engineer as tech giants turn to nuclear energy to power data centers Louisa Clarence-Smith / The Times : Three Mile Island nuclear plant to restart for Microsoft Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Microsoft cash to help reignite Three Mile Island atomic plant Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers Lucas Nolan / Breitbart : Microsoft Plans to Revive Infamous Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Feed Insatiable AI Power Requirements Jennifer Mattson / Fast Company : Nuclear plant Three Mile Island is reopening to power Microsoft AI's growing energy demands Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch : Microsoft taps Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware : Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions Christian Britschgi / Reason : The Owner of Three Mile Island Is Turning the Nuclear Power Plant Back on to Fuel Microsoft's AI Operations C Mandler / NPR : Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers 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 IJR : Tech Giant Secures Deal To Bring Back Reactor At Infamous Nuclear Power Plant Mack DeGeurin / Popular Science : Massive AI energy demand is bringing Three Mile Island back from the dead Ben Geman / Axios : Three Mile Island nuclear plant to restart, power Microsoft data centers Zack Budryk / The Hill : Microsoft strikes deal to reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant Fox Business : Microsoft deal would reopen Pennsylvania nuclear plant, site of 1979 partial meltdown, to power AI Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast : Three Mile Island Set to Restart to Power Microsoft's AI Data Centers Lisa Stiffler / GeekWire : Microsoft signs deal to revive Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to help power 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 Darrell Proctor / POWER Magazine : Microsoft Would Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Power AI WHYY : Three Mile Island reactor to restart under 20-year Microsoft deal 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 Ben Werdmuller / Werd I/O : Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal Rob Wile / NBC News : Three Mile Island nuclear plant to help power Microsoft's data-center needs Todd Feathers / Gizmodo : Microsoft Deal Will Bring Nuclear Power Back to Three Mile Island Kate Seamons / Newser : Three Mile Island Isn't Dead After All Michael Kan / PCMag : Microsoft to Revive Nuclear Plant on Three Mile Island to Handle AI Processing 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 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/ ... 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/... Bojan Tunguz / @tunguz : This what finally defeating the decels looks like. 💪☢️ 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 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] 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. 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