“The facilities will reportedly consume as much as 13 percent of the plant’s output.”
NE Edge wants two AI datacenters next to the 2GW Millstone plant in Waterford, Connecticut, and has $1.6 billion lined up. Residents worry their power bills go up, and the company answers that a direct connection lets it negotiate better prices. Better prices for NE Edge. AWS already paid $650 million for a campus beside Susquehanna. Carbon-free power for chatbots means less of it for everyone else on the grid.