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Big Tech's big bet on nuclear power to fuel artificial intelligence
Faced with the need to cut carbon emissions, and an increasing energy demand to power AI, companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon are investing in nuclear, from restarting Three Mile Island, to creating "small modular reactors."
Correspondent David Pogue with Joe Dominguez, CEO of Constellation Energy, at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, which is being reopened. Cheap natural gas, low demand, subsidization of different technologies in the business, [and] no policy supporting nuclear caused plants to start retiring." "There's only one problem with small modular reactors: They don't really exist," said George Washington University professor Sharon Squassoni, who spent 15 years researching nuclear safety for the government.
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