Microsoft signed a 20-year deal for every watt from Three Mile Island Unit 1, the nuclear reactor that ran without incident beside the one that melted down in 1979, and Constellation is spending $1.6 billion to restart it in 2027 under a new name, eight years after it shut for making power nobody would pay enough for

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A few hundred meters from the entombed wreck of Unit 2 stands Three Mile Island Unit 1, a separate reactor connected to the grid in 1974. Groups like Three Mile Island Alert question restarting a mid-century reactor beside the sealed remains of its twin, and note that ordinary ratepayers share a grid increasingly strained by data centers whose power this plant will exclusively serve. The restart, if it holds its 2027 schedule, will make the same island the symbol of the reversal: the industry’s most infamous address, reopened under a new name, sold out for twenty years to a software company — because the machine that once made power nobody would pay enough for now makes the only kind of power its buyer cannot find enough of.