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Big Tech wants to plug data centers right into power plants. Utilities say it's not fair (apnews.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/news

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It’s raising questions over whether diverting power to higher-paying customers will leave enough for others

kagis

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

Three Mile Island Reactor Returning in 2028 as Crane Center: Microsoft Signs 20-year Nuclear PPA with Constellation

Sept. 20, 2024

The new PPA is Constellation’s largest ever with Microsoft, so big that the energy company will restart closed Three Mile Island’s nuclear-powered Unit 1 close by the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania.

I mean, that generation capacity had been offline. Wasn't providing power for anyone in the condition it had been in.

[–] FlyingSquid 12 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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