Data centers' demand for electricity brings unprecedented opportunity and challenges • Pennsylvania Capital-Star

Data centers' demand for electricity brings unprecedented opportunity and challenges • Pennsylvania Capital-Star

in this aerial view, the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant stands in the middle of the Susquehanna River on October 10, 2024 near Middletown, Pennsylvania. The plant’s owner, Constellation Energy, plans to spend $1.6 billion to refurbish the reactor that it closed five years ago and restart it by 2028 after Microsoft recently agreed to buy as much electricity as the plant can produce for the next 20 years to power its growing fleet…

New PA Bill Coming to Build Data Centers & Gas Power Faster, Cheaper - Marcellus Drilling News

Data centers and the gas-fired power plants that will provide electricity to them are all the rage these days, particularly in Pennsylvania. After years of no new gas-fired power plants being announced in the Keystone State due to the attempt by PA’s governors to inflict a carbon tax on them, there has been a flurry...