Constellation Energy to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant, sell the power to Microsoft for AI
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Constellation described the agreement with Microsoft as the largest power purchase agreement that the nuclear plant operator has ever signed.

Three Mile Island was the worst nuclear accident in US history. Was mainly caused by poor design of human feedback systems which caused operational confusion and lead to a catastrophic failure.

  • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    datacenter are perfect for nuclear as they are generally a fixed load that never changes, solar needs expensive batteries as does wind, there are functionaly no* renewable options for covering extended periods on no wind or sun. datacenters bring in money partially because of their reliability, normal ones have huge generators to accomplish this, nuclear is much greener.

    • ignoring hydro due to regulations and tidal as it isn’t ready yet