• How the AI boom is reviving Three Mile Island

  • Dec 18 2024
  • Length: 24 mins
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How the AI boom is reviving Three Mile Island

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  • Tech companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft need loads of electricity to power their artificial intelligence goals, and they are looking into all options, including nuclear power, to achieve them. That’s why Microsoft has partnered with a utility company to restart a reactor at Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in US history. The FT's US energy editor Jamie Smyth explains what challenges lie ahead with a 2028 deadline looming.

    Clips from CBS News, ABC News, WNEP


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    For further reading:

    Restart of Three Mile Island tests US appetite for nuclear revival

    Resurgent US electricity demand sparks power grid warnings

    Big Tech’s dash for nuclear power

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    Follow Jamie Smyth and Michela Tindera on X (@JamieSmythF) (@mtindera07), on Bluesky (@jamiesmythft.bsky.social), (@mtindera.bsky.social) or follow Michela on LinkedIn for updates about the show and more.


    Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com



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