Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up
The hyperscaler is far from the only one scrambling to secure adequate power to keep its AI ambitions from starving. Microsoft also tapped Constellation to reignite the Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor – you know, the one that didn't partially melt down back in 1979. That reactor is expected to come online as early as next year.Meta is also making noise about nuclear.
- ▪The hyperscaler is far from the only one scrambling to secure adequate power to keep its AI ambitions from starving.
- ▪Microsoft also tapped Constellation to reignite the Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor – you know, the one that didn't partially melt down back in 1979.
- ▪That reactor is expected to come online as early as next year.Meta is also making noise about nuclear.
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