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Big Tech's big bet on nuclear power to fuel artificial intelligence

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The 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident set the nuclear industry back years.

Only two new plants have been started since that accident.

Google , Apple and Microsoft have pledged to reach net zero carbon emissions.

Big Tech realized that they wouldn't make their emissions goals without taking power into their own hands.

"You don't want to build a unique design; you want to do kind of a cookie-cutter, one -after-another design" Google 's Michael Terrell believes his company will make its zero -carbon goal by 2030 .

"It is an incredibly ambitious goal: 24/7 carbon-free energy everywhere we operate every way around the world," he says.

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