{"id":196537,"date":"2024-09-22T11:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T16:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/three-mile-island-reactor-to-provide-power-for-microsoft-data-centers"},"modified":"2024-09-22T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T16:22:26","slug":"three-mile-island-reactor-to-provide-power-for-microsoft-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/three-mile-island-reactor-to-provide-power-for-microsoft-data-centers","title":{"rendered":"Three Mile Island reactor to provide power for Microsoft data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SRg3tH6Nu4Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014 The owner of the shuttered <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ca23009ea5b54f21a3fed04065cacc7e\">Three Mile Island nuclear power plant<\/a> said Friday that it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement that calls for tech giant Microsoft to buy the power to supply its data centers with carbon-free energy.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement by Constellation Energy comes five years after its then-parent company, Exelon, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-f9831eb0ddf44603abb2c9cb76d35f88\">shut down the plant<\/a>, saying it was losing money and that Pennsylvania lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-national-national-6216f574e15546ab877353e924d70dea\">had refused<\/a> to bail it out.<\/p>\n<p>The plan to restart Three Mile Island\u2019s Unit 1 comes amid something of a renaissance for nuclear power, as policymakers are increasingly looking to it to bail out a fraying electric power supply, help avoid the worst effects of climate change and meet rising power demand driven by data centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014 The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant said Friday that it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement that calls for tech giant Microsoft to buy the power to supply its data centers with carbon-free energy. The announcement by Constellation Energy comes five years after its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,873,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-nuclear-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}