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Three Mile Island owner seeks $1.6 billion federal loan to restart nuclear plant for Microsoft AI facility (www.phillyvoice.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Microsoft has agreed to purchase all of the power from the reactor over the next 20 year

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