Refurbished Three Mile Island Payment Structure Is Not Quite What It Seems - CleanTechnica

Reactor 1 at the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station will be refurbished and put back into service for another 20 years or more.

The plant's sole customer will be Microsoft , which needs a lot of electricity to operate its data centers.

Microsoft is one of many large tech companies scouring the nation for zero emissions power.

The demand for electricity is exploding, thanks to cryptomining and AI .

Microsoft and Constellation have not released any details about how much the electricity from Three Mile Island will cost.

Proponents say reopening nuclear power plants is a good option, especially with increased demand from data centers.

The electricity from the restarted nuclear reactor will not be connected directly to Microsoft ’s data centers, instead it will flow into the broader power grid that serves 13 states and D.C..

At worst, both companies may have committed sins of omissions, little white lies that take some of the luster off their bold plan to restart Three Mile Island . Back in the George W. Bush era, this would be known as “sideways waffling.” Both companies should know better than to tell part of the story instead of the entire story. Shame on Microsoft and Constellation for being a little less than completely honest about what their plan entails. Being coy about such details make people wonder what else they are hiding..