"This plant never should have been allowed to shut down," Constellation CEO Joseph Dominguez told WaPo. "It will produce as much clean energy as all of the renewables [wind and solar] built in Pennsylvania over the last 30 years."
Microsoft is backing a deal to re-open the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania as part of its plan to meet the staggering energy demands of its AI infrastructure.
The fact that an entire nuclear plant's output is being allocated to a single customer is also novel, in the clearest sign yet of a surge of interest in nuclear energy by a ravenous tech industry.
Constellation Energy is investing $1.6 billion to bring the Three Mile Island facility back into operation by 2028, with the hope of utilizing federal tax breaks.
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