Three Mile Island To Be Reactivated In Plan To Feed Power-Hungry Data Centers
Microsoft has reached a deal with Constellation Energy Corp. to reactivate a functioning reactor at the infamous site of a partial nuclear meltdown in 1979.
Three Mile Island nuclear plant to help power Microsoft's data-center needs
A unit of Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant will be restarted as part of a new energy-sharing agreement with Microsoft, which plans to use it to power the data centers it operates as part of its push into artificial intelligence.
Microsoft urged to ditch plans to power Wisconsin data center with methane gas
Environmental and health campaign groups led by Clean Wisconsin have signed an open letter criticizing the decision by Microsoft to use methane gas from We Energies at the site in Racine County. The cloud giant has permission to develop up to 1,000 acres of land in Mount Pleasant, Racine County, into a data center campus.
Constellation to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant in deal with Microsoft
Power giant Constellation Energy announced Friday that it had inked a 20-year deal with Microsoft to supply power to an AI data center from the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania,
A New Life Is Proposed for Three Mile Island Supplying Power to Microsoft Data Centers
The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant says it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement that calls for tech giant Microsoft to buy the power to supply its data
Microsoft in deal for Three Mile Island nuclear power to meet AI demand
Constellation Energy will reopen the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania to provide power to Microsoft as the tech giant scours for ways to satisfy its soaring energy demand while keeping its emissions in check.
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BlackRock And Microsoft Raising $30B For AI Data Center Fund
The fund could be leveraged to spend as much as $100B to build data centers and energy projects to support AI.
Land in Bristol to be rezoned for data center
The matter of a data center was before the Bristol Town Council on Thursday night, and the public had a chance to weigh in.
For a cash-starved city, data center plan could add up
Offering financial incentives to bring more data centers to Chicago won't erase a big deficit, but every bit of added revenue ...
Environmental groups say Microsoft's data center could harm state's clean energy goals
Microsoft data center in Mount Pleasant could be a threat to clean energy goals by using methane-gas power plants, environ ...
Microsoft building another data center in rising hub San Antonio
Microsoft is building another data center in San Antonio, which is becoming a hub for this type of development.
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Cellnex explores sale of French data center unit - report
Spain's Cellnex is reportedly exploring a sale of its data center unit in France. Citing people familiar with the matter, ...
Google says it will rethink its plans for a big data center in Chile over water worries
Google says it will halt plans to develop a major $200 million data center in Chile to address environmental concerns.
Fort Worth approves data center in southwest development despite neighbor opposition
Council members hope the site will generate jobs and millions in annual tax dollars. Some of its soon-to-be neighbors aren’t ...
Elon Musk’s New AI Data Center Raises Alarms Over Pollution
A historically Black community in Memphis, already burdened by pollution, fears xAI will worsen environmental threats.
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Alibaba Cloud claims modular data center can halve build times
Alibaba Cloud claims its modular data center architecture can reduce build times by as much as 50 percent. First reported by ...