It’s raising questions over whether diverting power to higher-paying customers will leave enough for others and whether it’s fair to excuse big power users from paying for the grid. Federal regulators are trying to figure out what to do about it, and quickly.
Front and center is the data center that Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, is building next to the Susquehanna nuclear plant in eastern Pennsylvania.
The arrangement between the plant’s owners and AWS — called a “behind the meter” connection — is the first such to come before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. For now, FERC has rejected a deal that could eventually send 960 megawatts — about 40% of the plant’s capacity — to the data center. That’s enough to power more than a half-million homes.
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It sounds like at least some of this is adding generation capacity.
https://www.energytech.com/energy-efficiency/article/55141439/three-mile-island-1-returns-as-crane-center-microsoft-signs-20-year-nuclear-ppa-with-constellation
I mean, that generation capacity had been offline. Wasn’t providing power for anyone in the condition it had been in.
I get that you really love Kagi, but must you tell us which search engine you’re using every time you use it?
I don’t say, “duckduckgoes” on a separate line every time I dig up a hyperlink.
CNN reports that all the energy generated by the Three Mile Island reactor will go to MS’s AI data center.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/20/energy/three-mile-island-microsoft-ai/index.html