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Major data center developer and operator Equinix has entered into several advanced nuclear electricity deals, including power purchase agreements for fission energy and pre-ordering microreactors for its operations, the company said on Thursday.
The voracious energy needs of data centers has led to a rising number of preliminary power deals to fuel data centers with advanced nuclear energy.
Small modular reactors and other next-generation energy is not yet commercially available in the U.S., the world's data center hub.
The Equinix announcement follows news that the U.S. Department of Energy earlier had selected an initial 11 projects for a pilot program seeking to develop high-tech test nuclear reactors with the aim of getting three of the projects operating in less than a year.
Equinix's deals with advanced nuclear providers would supply more than 1 gigawatt of electricity to the company's data centers.
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