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Inside the Audacious Plan to Reopen Three Mile Island’s Nuclear Plant
Reopening an existing nuclear plant could address several problems, Dominguez thought. Tech companies need power 24/7 for AI ...
Opinion: When you combine AI and nuclear power, the results can be catastrophic
Big tech needs to find more energy-efficient ways to run AI data centers, and direct their major energy investments, along ...
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Data Center Nuclear Power Update: Microsoft, Constellation, AWS, Talen, Meta
Microsoft is making good progress on its PPA with Constellation to reopen Three Mile Island, but it's not all smooth sailing ...
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Researchers develop new breakthrough approach to tackle major issue with AI — here's how it could replace current techniques
Microsoft recently took the bold step of reopening a unit of Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant. No matter how ...
Rare bees kill Meta’s nuclear-powered AI data center plans
Environmental regulators reportedly quashed Mark Zuckerberg’s nuclear plant partnership meant to help power Meta’s ongoing artificial intelligence projects. Details remain scarce, but the main reason ...
Endangered bees stop Meta’s plan for nuclear-powered AI data center
Plans by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to build an AI data center in the US that runs on nuclear power were thwarted in part because ...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Nuclear-Powered Data Center for AI Derailed by Bees
Amazon has also faced a recent setback after the government on Monday rejected a request to increase the amount of power a nuclear plant can direct to one of its data centers. It’s still allowed to ...
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AI’s appetite for electric power fuels interest in nuclear option
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 ...
Mark Zuckerberg's Nuclear-Powered AI Ambitions At Meta Stung By Rare Bees
Meta's plans to build a nuclear-powered AI data center in the U.S. have stalled due to environmental and regulatory concerns, ...
Tech partnerships with power companies for AI in doubt after government rejects key Amazon agreement
Talen Energy in March sold the data center campus to Amazon for $650 million, which would be powered by the nuclear plant in ...
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Here’s how bees stopped Meta from building world’s first nuclear-powered AI data center
Microsoft, for example, has a 20-year agreement to source energy from the historic Three Mile Island nuclear plant, now rebranded as the Crane Clean Energy Center, to power its own AI initiatives.
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Regulators deliver successive blows to Amazon and Meta’s nuclear power ambitions
A series of recent rulings from regulators dashed the Big Tech companies' hopes of finding a quick fix for their electricity ...