“Microsoft has agreed to purchase all of the power from the reactor over the next 20 years, a Constellation spokesperson told TechCrunch.”
Unit 1 shut in 2019 because it couldn’t compete with gas, solar and wind. Now Constellation will spend $1.6 billion to restart it by 2028 so one company can take all 835 megawatts for chatbots. The rosy 3,400 jobs figure comes from a report paid for by a construction trades council. Microsoft already admitted in May that AI put its 2030 green goal in jeopardy, so it bought a whole reactor to paper over the miss.