This Nuclear Power plant in the US is reopening for Microsoft, here’s the ‘big why’
By
Isha Sharma
Microsoft has agreed to a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy to revive the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, aiming to power its growing artificial intelligence data centres with carbon-free electricity.
Three Mile Island, infamous for a 1979 partial meltdown in its Unit 2 reactor, has been a symbol of nuclear power’s risks. This restart attempt focuses on the separate, undamaged Unit 1.