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Three Mile Island Plans to Reopen as Demand for Nuclear Power Grows (www.nytimes.com)
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The infamous plant, closed since 2019, is getting a new lease on life after Microsoft agreed to buy its electricity to supply a growing fleet of data centers.

To be clear: Microsoft isn't directly using the electricity themselves; they're supplying it to others to offset their own use of fossil-fuel-generated electricity.

Also Washington Post coverage

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[-] sonori@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hopefully they’ve fixed the printer .(a really good talk on systemic failures by the way).

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