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Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions
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this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2024
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Honestly, it probably is a great idea regardless. The plant operated for a very long time profitably. I'm sure it can again with some maintenance and upgrades. People only know three mile island for the (not so disastrous) disaster, but the rest of the plant operated for decades after without any issues.
Hopefully we can trust these tech bros to do that properly and without using their usual "move fast and break things" approach.
They are only buying 100% of the output. The old owners are still owning and operating it.
And if they do skimp on maintenance and upgrades and the plant melts down, we can be assured that no harm will come to the company because the scale of the disaster would wipe them out and they're "too big to fail."
It's one of a hell of an old nuclear plant if it's the original three mile island one.
It is, yeah. It was in operation until 2019.