The site of America's most notorious nuclear energy incident will soon provide electricity to power Big Tech's AI ambitions. On Tuesday, the Energy Department announced that it will loan the Crane Clean Energy Center, formerly known as Three Mile Island (TMI) Nuclear Generating Station, $1 billion to restart operations of the power plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania.
Kickstarting America's nuclear energy sector has been a priority of the Trump administration and Energy Secretary Chris Wright. In May, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders to galvanize the industry, and Wright, who has targeted wasteful spending and slashed billions of dollars of Joe Biden-era green energy projects, has remained bullish about the need for the federal government to support nuclear power.
