Then he considered reopening Three Mile Island could solve several problems. Tech companies require a 24/7 power source for ...

AI’s thirst for energy sealed the deal between Microsoft and Constellation on the plant, where memories of a partial meltdown ...

The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, could reopen in 2028. The plant’s owner, Constellation Energy, signed a deal with Microsoft that ...

Big tech needs to find more energy-efficient ways to run AI data centers, and direct their major energy investments, along ...

A few dozen ChatGPT queries cost a bottle’s worth of water. Tech firms should consider simpler solutions, such as harvesting ...

With the grid facing strain and more energy-hungry giants sitting down at the table, ensuring fair contribution isn’t just ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta saw plans for a new AI data center fall through in part because a rare species of bee was found on land where the data center would be built, according to a report. Sources told ...

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 ...

Three Mile Island, which is located in Pennsylvania on ... driven in part by Big Tech's energy-intensive AI data center expansion has led to a revival of the country's struggling nuclear industry.

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 ...

Chips and energy are the picks and shovels of the AI movement, making reexamining ... One is that these projects — even the Three Mile Island reactor, which isn’t using new technology ...

But, disasters like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl ... Ironically, the enormous appetite for power from AI data centers may ultimately reduce greenhouse gas emissions.