UTILITIES infrastructure need massive, reliable, clean power. Not just when the sun shines or the wind blows, but 24 / 7.”
The Duane Arnold deal forms part of a broader partnership between Google and NextEra to explore new nuclear plants across the US – their third gigawatt-scale collaboration to date.
“ Nuclear is a big piece of the solution as we work toward powering Google’ s operations with clean energy every hour of every day,” explains Michael Terrell, Head of Advanced Energy at Google.
Amazon’ s spread bet on PPAs and small modular reactors Amazon’ s largest nuclear energy endeavour is in Pennsylvania, where it has a power purchase agreement running until 2042 with Talen Energy.
The 1.9GW PPA, signed in 2025 at a cost of around US $ 18bn, sees energy from the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station go directly to an AWS data centre campus located just across the road.
But it is not just large-scale nuclear projects that the company is investing in. In Washington, Amazon’ s money
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