Amazon joins the big nuclear party, buying 1.92 GW for AWS

Amazon has become a trend in this week, one of the great technological companies receives power from existing nuclear power plants.

Technical company Pennsylvania will strengthen the AWS cloud and AI servers using 1.92 gigawat electricity from Susquehanna nuclear power plant. Amazon is the latest hyperscaler to go directly to large nuclear operators following the heels Microsoft and Meta.

Amazon’s Deal was declared Wednesday, but instead replaced it is not quite new an existing arrangement with Talen. In the old version, Amazon, Susquehanna, set up a data center next to the power plant, deleted from the facility without sending violence directly from the electricity.

This deal was killed by regulators that customers will receive an unfair shoulder, the burden of using the network. Today, Susquehanna includes a transmission fee that supports the maintenance and development of the grid, in every kilowatt, which means in every kilowatt hour. The arrangement behind the Amazon meter would put these fees aside.

These weekly amendments, Amazon’s power purchase agreement is slipping into the meter, ie AWS Data Center will be calculated as other similar customers. Transmission lines will be reconciled in the spring of 2026, Talen said and the deal covers the energy purchased by 2042.

But wait, there are more: Two companies, “At Pennsylvania Footeprint”, they will appear to build smaller modular reactors and expand generations in existing nuclear power plants.

Expansion of existing power plants is usually an easier way to add a new nucleus. They may include Switch to higher enriched fuel to produce more heat, squeeze more strength or correct the settings to bathe the settings to repair the turbines for a larger bump.

Microsoft Was expelled from the trend Last year, a $ 1.6 billion project will produce 835 megawatts, which will work with a zodiac material to restart a reactor on the island of three miles. Meta closed Earlier this month, the “Clean Energy Attributes” of the 1.1 Gigawatt nuclear power plant in Illinois.

The pledge is a longer hit to build Amazon and Talen’s new small module reactors, although I have Amazon in a good company with their peers. Several beginners are followed by the concept of cutting construction costs with mass production parts. Amazon has A SMR invested in the start ofX-Energy plans to add a capacity of 300 megawatts of nigh north-west and Virginia in the Pacific.

In the existing reactors and new SMRs, a new generation of PJM grid will add new energy to the PJM grid, Talen, who touched the network operator. This recent bit is likely to start a criticism of any criticism to leave ratiels from the regulators.