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 ...
AI’s thirst for energy sealed the deal between Microsoft and Constellation on the plant, where memories of a partial meltdown ...
The recent news that Microsoft has made a deal to restart the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant to run its AI data ...
Three Mile Island's Unit 1 is set to reopen in a $1.6 billion deal with Microsoft, signaling a potential nuclear power ...
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has held a public meeting to review plans for reopening the Three Mile Island ...
A few dozen ChatGPT queries cost a bottle’s worth of water. Tech firms should consider simpler solutions, like harvesting ...
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are investing billions in nuclear energy, partly to help with rising AI energy costs — we ...
Environmental regulators reportedly quashed Mark Zuckerberg’s nuclear plant partnership meant to help power Meta’s ongoing artificial intelligence projects. Details remain scarce, but the main reason ...
Now, 45 years later, the plant’s operator is in talks to reopen it, with one customer purchasing all its power: Microsoft. The 1979 partial meltdown of the power plant at Three Mile Island was ...
Meta had to pull the plug on a nuclear-powered data center project after a rare bee species was discovered on the land where ...
An aerial view of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near ... due to the upsurge of generative AI use. Both Microsoft and Google missed their net zero emissions goals for 2024 — a first ...
AI is sucking up energy and tech companies are looking at ways to power it. There's been a lot of talk about nuclear, but those projects are years away and AI’s thirst for energy is happening now.