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Amazon on Wednesday announced plans to invest in nuclear power production to fuel its data centers with clean energy, a key part of the e-commerce giant's push to expand AI-powered services.
Building data centers on power plant sites, in an arrangement known as co-location, gives Big Tech a fast track to access large amounts of electricity to expand data centers instead of waiting for ...
Nuclear-power stocks fell after regulators voted against a deal between Amazon and Talen Energy. The deal would permit a Talen nuclear plant to provide an Amazon data center with extra power.
The plans come as the owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant said last month it plans to restart the reactor so tech giant Microsoft can buy the power to supply its data centers. All three companies have been investing in solar and wind technologies, which make electricity without producing greenhouse gas emissions.
Big Tech, including Amazon and Microsoft, is pursuing nuclear power to meet soaring energy demands for generative AI and data centers.
On February 14, 2019, Amazon canceled its plan for the HQ2 location in New York City. Amazon is also in the process of building a retail hub of operations center in Nashville, Tennessee. On August 21, 2019, Amazon opened its largest campus in the world at Nanakramguda in Hyderabad, India. It is the first Amazon-owned campus located outside the ...
Whether X-energy ends up building 5 gigawatts of nuclear power plants or only 320 megawatts, either way, it's probably not going to move the needle much on a company as big as Amazon.
Location Capacity Owner Type Notes and links Bay Shore: Oregon: 150: Walleye Energy LLC: Petroleum coke (1 unit) Opened in 1955. [8] Cardinal Power Plant: Brilliant: 1800: Buckeye Power: Coal (3 units) Unit 3 to be shut down in 2028, lowering generation capacity to 1180MW. [9] Gavin Power Plant: Cheshire: 2640: Gavin Power, LLC: Coal (2 units ...