Amazon Vies for Nuclear-Powered Data Center

Image caption: The Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, a nuclear power plant near Berwick, Pa., generates electricity for an adjacent data center owned by Amazon Web Services. Image credit: Kristen Mullen / AP. Article by Andrew Moseman. IEEE Spectrum – August 12, 2024.

When Amazon Web Services paid US $650 million in March for another data center to add to its armada, the tech giant thought it was buying a steady supply of nuclear energy to power it, too. The Susquehanna Steam Electric Station outside of Berick, Pennsylvania, which generates 2.5 gigawatts […]

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