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Hyperscalers Like Microsoft Are Far Better Customers for Nuclear Energy

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Sep 25, 2024
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Microsoft and the companies making AI data centers will be great customers for nuclear energy. Barrons reports that Microsoft is paying double the price for the Three Mile island nuclear electricity as the going commercial rates. This is about $130 per megawatt hour. An 835 megawatt reactor at 92% capacity factor would generate about 6.6 million megawat…

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