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Offline rangerrebew

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AI Energy Surge – Microsoft to Re-Open Three Mile Island
« on: November 25, 2024, 07:12:26 am »
AI Energy Surge – Microsoft to Re-Open Three Mile Island
6 hours ago Eric Worrall
Essay by Eric Worrall

The entire output of the re-opened Three Mile Island nuclear plant will be used to drive artificial intelligence computers.

A once-shuttered nuclear plant could soon return to the grid.

The planned reopening of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant is praised as a boon for Pennsylvania and a boost for AI, but it is loathed by residents still haunted by a near-catastrophic meltdown there in 1979.
 
The resurrection of Three Mile Island (TMI) — half of which remained operating after the 1979 meltdown, only closing down due to economic reasons in 2019 — was prompted by Microsoft’s need to fuel its power-hungry data centers.

A revolution in generative artificial intelligence has triggered a surge in energy needs for those data centers, pushing cloud computing giants to look for additional low carbon energy sources.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/24/ai-energy-surge-microsoft-to-re-open-three-mile-island/
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Re: AI Energy Surge – Microsoft to Re-Open Three Mile Island
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2024, 08:32:19 am »
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is concerned that such arrangements will take electricity away from the Public grids.

Either utilities, data centers or electricity companies, are allowed to build more reliable generation capacity, or America loses the AI race.  Defense Production Act?
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Re: AI Energy Surge – Microsoft to Re-Open Three Mile Island
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2024, 09:28:20 am »
The same Three Mile Island that the left despised, and that basically destroyed a lot of the furthering  of the nuclear energy?

Remember No Nukes?  The left is devoid of any ideological honesty. 
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