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FILE PHOTO: The Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant is seen at sunset in Middletown, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 15, 2024. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
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Three Mile Island nuclear plant gears up for Big Tech reboot

Constellation Energy aims to revive the half-century-old Three Mile Island nuclear plant to fuel Microsoft's data centers.

FILE PHOTO: The Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant is pictured from Royalton, Pennsylvania, U.S. May 30, 2017.   REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
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Analysis: US nuclear plants won’t power up Big Tech’s AI ambitions right away

Big tech firms should be wary of seeing nuclear as a quick fix to power problems, as regulatory hurdles and technical challenges loom...

FILE PHOTO: The Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant is pictured from Royalton, Pennsylvania, U.S. May 30, 2017.   REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
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US nuclear regulator has not gotten application for Three Mile Island restart

Despite deal between Microsoft and Constellation, no application for restarting Three Mile Island has been received.

FILE PHOTO: Storage tanks are seen at Marathon Petroleum's Los Angeles Refinery, which processes domestic & imported crude oil in Carson, California, U.S., March 11, 2022. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File Photo
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Oil slips for first day in three ahead of Fed decision

Oil prices fall despite US inventories increase, with tensions in the Middle East and potential US interest rate cut looming over markets.

FILE PHOTO: A group of buildings housing cryptocurrency miners sits in the foreground of a power generating station at the Scrubgrass Plant in Kennerdell, Pennsylvania, U.S., March 8, 2022. REUTERS/Alan Freed/File Photo
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AI’s race for US energy butts up against bitcoin mining

To secure AI data centers, tech giants are scrambling for energy by eyeing deals with cryptocurrency miners.

FILE PHOTO: Aerial view of the Apple Data Center in Mesa near Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. on August 6, 2017.  REUTERS/Jim Todd
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North America sees 70% jump in data center supply in construction, CBRE report says

North American data center construction surged 70% year-over-year, driven by AI and cloud growth, CBRE reports.

FILE PHOTO: Cryptocurrency miners are seen in a liquid immersion cooling mining tank at the TMG Core stand during the Bitcoin Conference 2022 in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. April 6, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo
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Talen Energy offers up nuclear crypto campus stake, sources say

Stake available in nuclear-powered cryptocurrency mining operation in Pennsylvania, as companies push for data centers run on clean energy.

People walk in the Houston's southwestern neighborhood as they remove fallen tree branches and debris after Hurricane Beryl, in Houston, Texas, U.S., July 8, 2024. REUTERS/Marianna Parraga
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Oil companies in Texas try to restore operations following storm Beryl

Oil and gas companies in Texas are making efforts to restart operations after Hurricane Beryl lashed the state with 80-mph winds.

FILE PHOTO: Attendees walk through an expo hall at AWS re:Invent 2023, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., November 29, 2023. Noah Berger/AWS/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
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Talen asks US regulators to reject challenge to Amazon data center deal

The deal is being opposed by a group of electric utilities that say the agreement could raise power bills for the general public.

FILE PHOTO: The front entrance of the Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant is pictured in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, U.S. May 30, 2017.   REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
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Constellation Energy talking to Pennsylvania on Three Mile Island restart: sources

This plan, driven by rising power demand and the push for carbon-free energy, faces high costs and logistical challenges.

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