Big tech needs to find more energy-efficient ways to run AI data centers, and direct their major energy investments, along with the government, to clean renewable energy that doesn’t make our ...
The recent news that Microsoft has made a deal to restart the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant to run its AI data ...
After 17 months, Constellation and Microsoft announced in September that the tech giant has signed a 20-year power-purchase ...
Three Mile Island's Unit 1 is set to reopen in a $1.6 billion deal with Microsoft, signaling a potential nuclear power ...
Also in September, Constellation Energy announced plans to restart an 835-megawatt reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant and so 100% of that power it generates to Microsoft. Google pursues ...
Microsoft, for example, reached a deal with Constellation Energy to reopen Three Mile Island to power its data centers for the next two decades. Even Google signed a deal to buy small nuclear reactors ...
Amazon and Google are investing in the development of new nuclear plants and Microsoft has taken the more radical step of ...
Recent announcements pairing Big Tech and nuclear energy have hit the news lately. But where did this interest come from, and what does it mean ...
Anna Erickson of Georgia Tech explains why the public and private sectors are investing in reactor technology and restarting retired plants. The system, though, still faces cost, safety and regulatory ...
Meta had to pull the plug on a nuclear-powered data center project after a rare bee species was discovered on the land where ...
Plans by Meta to build a nuclear-powered datacentre in the US were stalled, partly because a rare species of bee was ...
Deals signed by Google, Amazon, and Microsoft with U.S. nuclear developers will help to deploy a new generation of reactors.