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To: DFG

Which is why Microsoft is buying Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant and renewing its license.

Enough power there to power two cities

I am not exactly crazy about Microsoft owning a power plant but I am glad that the plant is not being decommissioned


6 posted on 11/24/2024 2:38:09 PM PST by Pontiac (esse welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

I am not exactly crazy about Microsoft owning a power plant


Not exactly the place where you want to see a Blue Screen Of Death.


13 posted on 11/24/2024 2:47:19 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Pontiac

TMI will power roughly 1.2 million homes.


31 posted on 11/24/2024 3:36:51 PM PST by meatloaf
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To: Pontiac
For clarification, Microsoft probably just entered into a purchase power agreement for the plant output. The owning utility will operate it, so no worries there.

. There are other Nuclear plants being brought back…Palisades in west Michigan is being restarted, and other plants too.

Also , some AI data center owners are planning on utilizing Small Modular Reactors(SMRs) at the sites to provide power directly. I think these would be in the area of 20 to 100 MWs, but not sure. Nuclear power is going to make a big comeback

The greenies (or at least some of them) prefer nuclear power over gas and coal, and that’s providing this new found massive load increase.

47 posted on 11/24/2024 4:06:48 PM PST by power2 (JMJ)
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