They’re literally recommissioning old NPPs and potentially commissioning brand new ones to get more cleanISH energy to power their data centers for AI in particular. But even if you get zero emissions energy, there’s a lot of emissions in the construction itself, which they seem to actually be addressing here.

Or they could be doing this just for the greenwashing, which is pretty likely with a gigacorporation like Microsoft.

That said, the timber constructions would likely look way better than concrete or steel so I’m all for it