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Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Pennsylvania, US operations and meet the growing demands of our customers, while helping us progress toward our Climate Pledge commitment to be net-zero carbon across our operations by 2040,” states Matt Garman, CEO at AWS.
A simple equation Big Tech’ s growing admiration for nuclear energy is a matter of arithmetic. Each of the aforementioned organisations has promised to cut its carbon footprint while simultaneously building the most energy hungry infrastructure in corporate history. Simply put, that sum no longer adds up without a source of power that runs continuously and without emissions. After the Fukushima disaster in 2011, global investments in nuclear energy fell off a cliff, with many countries even deciding to phase out nuclear altogether. Just 15 years later, the energy source is having a true renaissance, pushed on by technological innovations like SMRs and microreactors.
Whether this new relationship between Big Tech and nuclear will last remains to be seen. For now, though, nuclear is well and truly a part of the sector’ s future.
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