Three Mile Island was the site of the country’s worst nuclear disaster. Now AI energy demands might turn it back on

Despite the infamous meltdown, owners of a third of the U.S.’s nuclear plants are reportedly in talks with tech companies to help power data centers.

In 1979, a partial meltdown of a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania brought America’s nuclear fears to life. For the past five years, that plant has been dormant, but a movement is underway to turn things back on, as demand for power sources by artificial intelligence companies continues to grow.