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๐ฉ Amazonโs Big Power Deal Amazon has signed a major deal with Talen Energy to use 1,920 megawatts of nuclear power from Pennsylvaniaโs Susquehanna facility through 2042.
The energy will be delivered via the power grid, not directly from the plant, with PPL Electric Utilities handling transmission. This setup also helps strengthen the grid, as Amazon pays service and transmission fees.
๐ฉ Why This Matters As AI and cloud computing demand more electricity, tech giants like Amazon are turning to nuclear power for stable, large-scale energy.
This deal alone can power multiple large-scale data centers for years โ supporting Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AI workloads.
๐ฉ Amazon May Explore Next-Gen Nuclear Talen and Amazon may also work on small modular reactors (SMRs) โ next-gen nuclear tech that could power data centers more directly in the future.
๐ฉ Other Tech Giants Are Doing the Same
Microsoft signed a deal in 2024 to reopen the Three Mile Island plant and get 835 MW of nuclear power by 2028.
Meta (Facebookโs parent) recently agreed to buy 1.1 gigawatts of nuclear power from Constellation Energy over 20 years.
๐ฉ Government Support U.S. lawmakers, including President Trump, are backing nuclear power to support AI growth, crypto mining, and high-performance computing.
Thereโs growing political and industry pressure to secure energy independence and stay competitive globally in AI.