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Amazon looks to advanced nuclear reactors to meet climate goals

By District Energy posted 10-16-2024 17:22

  

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Two days after Google cut a “world’s first” deal to purchase electricity from advanced nuclear reactors, Amazon announced three new agreements of its own today.

Each deal supports the development of small modular reactors (SMRs), which can be one-tenth to one-quarter the size of a traditional nuclear power plant. If these projects make it to the finish line, SMRs would be a source of carbon pollution-free energy for big tech companies trying to salvage their climate goals by turning to nuclear energy.

Nuclear energy has become an attractive source of energy for tech companies, including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, that are struggling to meet commitments they’ve made on climate change. Data centers burn through a lot of electricity — those used to train AI even more so — and that means more greenhouse gas emissions unless those data centers run on carbon-free energy. AmazonGoogle, and Microsoft all have larger carbon footprints today than they did when they made major climate commitments several years ago.

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