Work needed: The control room at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. FERC’s ruling creates a barrier to the quick supply of the massive electricity demand needed to power AI data centres. — Reuters
NEW YORK: Tech giants looking to quickly power massive artificial intelligence (AI) centres will need to come up with new strategies after the US regulators quashed Amazon.com Inc’s effort to tap a Pennsylvania nuclear facility.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) last Friday rejected a request that would allow Talen Energy Corp’s Susquehanna nuclear plant to divert some of its electricity output to Amazon’s data centre.
