Big tech needs to find more energy-efficient ways to run AI data centers, and direct their major energy investments, along with the government, to clean renewable energy that doesn’t make our ...
The recent news that Microsoft has made a deal to restart the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant to run its AI data ...
After 17 months, Constellation and Microsoft announced in September that the tech giant has signed a 20-year power-purchase ...
Three Mile Island's Unit 1 is set to reopen in a $1.6 billion deal with Microsoft, signaling a potential nuclear power ...
The commission’s ruling against linking the technology giant’s facility with a Pennsylvania reactor spurred a drop in nuclear ...
Microsoft, for example, reached a deal with Constellation Energy to reopen Three Mile Island to power its data centers for the next two decades. Even Google signed a deal to buy small nuclear reactors ...
Data centers use a lot of computational power, requiring a steady supply of water to cool the systems, which can be solved by ...
Nuclear has a capacity factor of 92.5%, the highest of any source of electricity, not to mention near-zero greenhouse gas ...
A few dozen ChatGPT queries cost a bottle’s worth of water. Tech firms should consider simpler solutions, like harvesting ...
Amazon and Google are investing in the development of new nuclear plants and Microsoft has taken the more radical step of ...
Recent announcements pairing Big Tech and nuclear energy have hit the news lately. But where did this interest come from, and what does it mean ...
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 ...