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Microsoft’s Three Mile Island Deal Signals a Broader Nuclear Comeback

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Reactivating reactor one at Three Mile Island nuclear power station in Pennsylvania will start running again in 2028 .

Nuclear power is attractive to tech companies because it provides low-carbon electricity round-the-clock, unlike solar and wind.

The International Energy Agency estimates that electricity demand from AI , data centers, and crypto could more than double by 2026 .

Pichai said that work on improving the consumption side of AI ’s energy usage was still in its “early phases” Googles emissions in 2023 were 48 percent higher than their 2019 baseline.

“The energy demands of AI are rising right now,” says Luccioni , but the renewable or low-carbon energy to fuel AI isn’t keeping pace quickly enough.

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