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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.
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.
It will be at least 15 years before Amazon and X-energy could even hypothetically complete construction on 5 GW worth of SMR nuclear power plants. So all of this hypothesizing is very far out in ...
4 initial reactors near the Tri-Cities could need up to 1,000 temporary construction workers and as many as 100 permanent employees.
Big Tech continues to go nuclear as the AI boom drives energy demand to new heights. Amazon anchored a $500 million investment in X-energy.
Philo Power Plant: Philo: 510: Ohio Power: Coal: Closed in 1975; Philo Unit 6 was the first commercial supercritical steam-electric generating unit in the world, [28] and it could operate short-term at ultra-supercritical levels. [29] Picway Power Plant: Lockbourne: 220: AEP: Coal: Closed in 2015 E.M. Poston Power Plant: Nelsonville: AEP: Coal ...
Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, Amazon is also trying to tap into an existing nuclear plant, the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, by using the energy the facility produces to power an adjacent data ...
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.