Microsoft’s AI energy needs to be supplied by US nuclear plant at controversial site
By
Binu Mathew
The surging demand for computing energy amid the generative AI wave could lead to the reboot of a nuclear plant located at the site where a partial meltdown once occurred.
The shuttered nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, US, is being reactivated to power Microsoft’s AI-driven, data centre energy needs, according to a report by CNET.