As Microsoft revives the Three Mile Unit 1 reactor, it’s clear that nuclear paired with data centers will be a consistent trend into the future, given the uptake in demand for computational power. But is there more to this trend than just sustainable AI usage and data storage? Diverting clean electricity away from the general grid towards new centers of demand is something the hydrogen industry has in large part been forbidden to do in Europe courtesy of the ‘additionality’ requirements where a new hydrogen project needs to be linked to an energy source no older than a year and a few months. The same negative consequence can now happen with data centers and nuclear. These “colocation” deals, involving companies…