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  • Zombie nuclear reactors could be revived thanks to AI data center demand

    01/23/2025 7:24:39 AM PST · by Red Badger · 31 replies
    Tech Crunch ^ | January 22, 2025 | Tim De Chant
    A South Carolina utility wants to restart construction on a power plant that was mothballed eight years ago after running over budget and pushing an iconic American company into bankruptcy. Hoping to capitalize on the data center power boom, state-owned utility Santee Cooper is looking for partners to help finance and complete the two reactors at the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Power Station, the Wall Street Journal reports. Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Power Station is a single reactor power plant. Santee Cooper was spearheading the construction of two new reactors, an expansion that began in 2008. The unfinished project was...