Pirat_Nation 🔴(@Pirat_Nation):Microsoft Wants to Use “Dirty Energy” for AI Data Centers Microsoft may scale back some of its clean energy goals for data centers because AI electricity demand growth is too fast so they will find alternatives The company already met its 2025 target early by signing contracts for more than 40 GW of renewable energy, but new AI facilities are expanding faster than clean power projects, and they can’t connect it to “clean energy.” Microsoft is investing in nuclear power, such as restarting the Three Mile Island plant, while considering natural gas plants as a solution

2026.05.07 03:03

Microsoft Wants to Use “Dirty Energy” for AI Data Centers Microsoft may scale back some of its clean energy goals for data centers because AI electricity demand growth is too fast so they will find alternatives The company already met its 2025 target early by signing contracts for more than 40 GW of renewable energy, but new AI facilities are expanding faster than clean power projects, and they can’t connect it to “clean energy.” Microsoft is investing in nuclear power, such as restarting the Three Mile Island plant, while considering natural gas plants as a solution

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