The General Services Administration (GSA), which manages government buildings, just announced a major nuclear energy contract. The announcement comes on the heels of several big tech companies making a flurry of nuclear energy deals last year.
The US government announced a historic nuclear energy deal – The Verge
The 10-year, $840 million contract is for 10 million megawatt-hours of electricity, which the GSA says is the equivalent of what s needed for more than 1 million homes annually. The agency awarded the contract to Constellation, which operates the nation s largest nuclear fleet, and recently announced an agreement with Microsoft to restart a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island. Nuclear energy makes up a significant portion of the GSA deal, about 4 million megawatt-hours, according to Constellation spokesperson Paul Adams.
Silicon Valley is increasingly turning to nuclear energy to satiate rising electricity demand from AI data centers. The federal government is the nation s single largest energy consumer, making this contract a big boon to the nuclear industry.
via www.theverge.com
So I guess nukes are officially OK now? I think that’s great but I don’t remember having a debate about it. I guess it’s good we’re not Germany.