The Three Mile Island nuclear plant, home of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, would restart under a deal in which Microsoft purchases all its power.

The Global X Uranium ETF URA was up 4.1% in late afternoon trading, while the Sprott Uranium Miners ETF URNM climbed 3.8% and the VanEck Uranium & Nuclear ETF NLR jumped 4.6%, FactSet data show, at last check.

El propietario de la clausurada central nuclear de Three Mile Island, en Pensilvania, invertirá US$1.600 millones para reactivarla, y acordó vender toda la producción a Microsoft Corp. en un momento en que el gigante tecnológico busca electricidad libre de carbono para centros de datos que impulsen el auge de la inteligencia artificial.

Microsoft’s electricity needs to power its data centres– crucial for growth of AI– has led it to invest $1.6 billion into reopening of a nuclear reactor that shut down after the worst nuclear accident