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Amazon announced Wednesday that it has signed three agreements to develop nuclear power projects, the e-commerce giant's latest nuclear pact announced in recent weeks as demand for energy to power artificial intelligence soars. became a big tech company.
The company has signed a deal with utility conglomerate Energy Northwest and developer X-Energy to build multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) in the area, and with Virginia's Dominion Energy to boost output in the area. We have signed a contract to explore the development of another SMR. .
“Nuclear power is a safe, carbon-free energy source that strengthens our business and meets growing customer demand, while meeting our Climate Pledge target of net-zero carbon across our operations by 2040. “It will also help us move forward,” Service CEO Matt Garman said in a statement announcing the deal.
Amazon is the second major U.S. tech company to announce an investment in nuclear power this week. (Reuters/Pascal Rossignol/File Photo/Reuters Photo)
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“One of the quickest ways to address climate change is to transition our society to carbon-free energy sources. Nuclear power is a key investment area for Amazon because it is carbon-free and scalable. ” Garman continued. . “Our agreement will accelerate the build-out of new nuclear technologies that will generate energy for decades to come.”
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Amazon is the second major U.S. tech company to announce an investment in nuclear power this week, with Google on Monday pledging Kairos's first small modular nuclear reactor to be operational by 2030, followed by additional deployments through 2035. announced that they have signed a contract with Kairos Power.
Google on Monday announced its own deal to invest in nuclear power development. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket, Getty Images / Getty Images)
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“Nuclear power can play an important role in meeting our needs more around the clock and cleanerly,” Michael Terrell, Google's senior director of energy and climate, told reporters on a conference call. I feel that way,” he said.
Technology companies have recently struck several deals with nuclear power producers this year as artificial intelligence boosts demand for electricity for the first time in decades.
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Amazon purchased a nuclear-powered data center from Talen Energy in March. Last month, Microsoft and Constellation Energy signed a power agreement to help restore parts of the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in the United States in 1979.
Microsoft announced last month that it had signed a contract to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. ((Photo Credit: Toby Scott/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) / Getty Images)
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Goldman Sachs estimates that U.S. data center power usage is expected to nearly triple between 2023 and 2030, with natural gas, wind and solar power expected to fill the gap. It is assumed that approximately 47 gigawatts of new power generation capacity will be required.
Reuters contributed to this report.
