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October 1, 2024

Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration

Last month, Constellation Energy announced a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) to provide electricity to Microsoft data centers in the mid-Atlantic region from the Unit 1 reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.

Unit 1 had returned to operation in 1985 after the 1979 partial meltdown that affected the adjacent Unit 2, but it was retired in 2019 because then-operator Exelon said it was no longer profitable.

The arrangement is the second this year in which a nuclear power plant owner has agreed to supply a data center with dedicated power as data center owners look for large and reliable sources of electricity supply for planned increases in demand. In March, Amazon Web Services (AWS) signed a contract for

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