The federal government's $1 billion loan to restart Three Mile Island has made AI's energy demands an American infrastructure question — one the public conversation hasn't processed yet.
The Three Mile Island restart crossed from private deal to public commitment when the Trump administration announced a $1 billion federal loan to bring Unit 1 back online [12][14]. The energy secretary's framing — calling the plant the 'poster child' of the Trump energy and AI agenda [10] — removed ambiguity about what the government is choosing and for whom. This is not a subsidy for nuclear energy in the abstract. It is a subsidy for the specific energy infrastructure that Microsoft's data center contracts require. Constellation Energy had already…
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