Amazon announced on Wednesday that it has entered into agreements to support nuclear energy development in three states to meet its data centers’ growing demand for more electrical power.
The contracts with the states of Washington, Virginia, and Pennsylvania for the construction of small modular reactors (SMRs) are a part of Amazon’s seven-year goal to draw from carbon-free energy by 2030.
“Nuclear power is one part of that mix—it can be brought online at scale, and has a decades-long record of providing a reliable source of safe carbon-free energy for communities around the world,” Amazon said.
SMRs are more advanced physical reactors with faster build times that can be built closer to the power grid because of their smaller footprint, Amazon said….