# Amazon Vies for Nuclear-Powered Data Center

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/amazon-vies-for-nuclear-powered-data-center/
- Published: 2024-08-18T09:00:03-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

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 […] Click here to view original web page at spectrum.ieee.org