Amazon Contracts With 3 States to Advance Nuclear Energy to Power Data Centers

Amazon Contracts With 3 States to Advance Nuclear Energy to Power Data Centers
Amazon Delivery signage is displayed outside an Amazon.com Inc. delivery hub during Amazon Prime Day in Torrance, Calif., on July 12, 2022. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
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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.