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Amazon joins the big nuclear party, buying 1.92 GW for AWS
Amazon and Talen revised an existing deal to buy power from the Susquehanna nuclear power plant.
This week’s revisions shift Amazon’s power purchase agreement in front of the meter, meaning the AWS data center will be billed like other similar customers who are grid-connected. But wait, there’s more: The two companies also said they will look to build small modular reactors “within Talen’s Pennsylvania footprint” and expand generation at existing nuclear power plants. Microsoft kicked off the trend last year when it announced that it would work with Constellation Energy to restart a reactor at Three Mile Island, a $1.6 billion project that will generate 835 megawatts.
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