Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal

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Microsoft would claim all of the nuclear plant's power generation for at least 20 years.

If and when the plant reaches its planned 2028 re-opening, it would be among the first wave of shuttered nuclear plants being put back into service.

The new Microsoft deal would re-open the adjacent Unit 1, which was shuttered in 2019 "due to poor economics," according to Constellation.

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