The Three Mile Island Melt Up 

No its not. Starting a toxic nuclear waste generating plant for useless microsoft ai

​@@RodimusPrime🤡

I mean you're a consumer of datacenter services whether you know it or not. You're also a voter who voted in the people who shut down these plants.

> I feel the existing fleet belongs to the citizens and businesses that have been paying the bills for all these decades Electricity was reformed by politicians on behalf of the people (well, some people), putting in place a generation market; can we blame actors in the generation market for finding the most attractive bids, especially when a few years ago the market (and politicians) attached little value to the qualities of nuclear?

@@scottmedwid1818 The power plants were sold to private owners when the state governments, with their superior wisdom, ended the regulated monopoly model, ordered the formerly vertically integrated utilities to divest themselves of all their generating plants, and formed regional electricity markets where generators now have to compete on price for customers. The plants now belong to the private entities that bought them, and they have to sell their electricity for what they can get customers to pay for it to survive. For a while, electricity prices were so low that single-unit plants like TMI-1 were losing money. It lasted long enough that they were forced out of business, reducing the surplus in capacity existing at the time. Now that demand for electricity is tightening, prices in the competitive market are rising. A large customer wants to secure a stable supply of electricity into the future, and has agreed to a purchase contract whose terms are attractive enough that the private company owning TMI is willing to restart the plant. It's still a competitive market-- if you want the power from TMI more than Microsoft does, offer the plant owner a higher price. That is how competitive markets work.

@@erikkovacs3097 All those irritating adds, p@wn, tons of useless videos, photos, Facebook pages of deceased and this new pyramid scheme called AI.

@@blahblah-ss4yk Yes, you are wrong here. There are seven days in a week, not one. In addition, the capacity factor of the average nuclear power plant has been about 92% for the past 20 years or so. When you fix those problems with your math, the annual revenue is about $800 million per year.

@@thomasgreene5750 thanks for your answer, indeed a "tiny" mistake that you pointed out 🙄

fossil reserve jumps in, hopefully for not long

Data centers have multiple redundancies. During refueling they will switch over to the grid as a secondary source.

>= 92% low carbon electricity is pretty good, even if the other 8% of the time might be on CCGT. Perhaps 12g/kWh for 92% of the time and 490g/kWh for 8% = 50 g/kWh. One might argue the nuclear is an over-estimate as the power station was mothballed so construction/demolition costs would have already happened.

@@asabriggs6426 you can use CCS

But master spy has the megawarbux.....

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