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If it gets a federal subsidy, that subsidy is going to really primarily benefit Pennsylvania, yes?
I mean, yes, power from it maybe -- if Microsoft isn't schlorping all of it up -- help support the grid in the region a bit. But if Microsoft's building a datacenter in Pennsylvania and this is subsidizing a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, the benefit's really principally going to Pennsylvania alone, other than in the limited sense that it reduces carbon dioxide emissions.
California or Nevada, say, isn't going to benefit from that either way.
Like, if there's some sort of federal subsidy accessible to any state that wants to do nuclear power build-out and that this is just how Pennsylvania chooses to make use of it, that might be one thing.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/20/microsoft-taps-three-mile-island-nuclear-plant-to-power-ai/?guccounter=1
The original reporting sounded decent - Microsoft was spinning up a decommissioned reactor, everyone wins
This new reporting of they can't afford it makes it seem like a bad idea in its entirety
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