We'll have some fission chips, please
The idle Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear power plant may soon be coming back online in Pennsylvania, thanks to a 20-year power purchase agreement between Microsoft and Constellation Energy, which owns the shuttered facility.
TMI Unit 1, which was retired for economic reasons in 2019, is slated for a potential revival as the Crane Clean Energy Center by 3 million metric tons per year, according to the analysis.For all its pledges of going carbon negative by 2030, Microsoft has seen its carbon dioxide emissions rise by nearly 30 percent since 2020, and most ofin its datacenter emissions though the Chocolate Factory said this shouldn't be blamed on its AI deployments.
The PPA with the CCEC will expire in 2044, and Constellation said it plans to pursue a license to remain in operation for an additional decade after that. It's not immediately clear if the CCEC investment is solely a Microsoft venture, or if it was negotiated through GAIIP. A Microsoft spokesperson stated they had no further comment about the plan. ®Microsoft exec warns of business functions being sacrificed on the altar of AINvidia CEO to nervous buyers and investors: Chill out, Blackwell production is heating up151
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