Jakarta (Antara) -Amazon has established a 1.92 Gigawatt Electricity Purchase -Cooperation of the Nuclear power plant (PLTN) Susquehanna owned by the Energy languages in Pennsylvania, United States as a diet for AWS -Cloudservices (AI).
Tech Crunch reporting on Monday, this collaboration is a change in the earlier agreement between Amazon and Languages. Earlier, Amazon is planning to build a data center near the Susquehanna Nutricultural Nutricultural Plan and Electricity directly from the facility without going through a electricity network (grille).
However, this plan was canceled by the regulator because it was feared that other customers bear the operational costs of the net unfairly.
In an updated agreement, the AWS data center of Amazon is charged as ordinary customers connected to the electricity network. The talent states that the connection with electricity network will be adjusted in the spring of 2026 and this contract for electricity supply is valid until 2042.
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Moreover, Amazon and languages are also committed to developing small modular reactors in the operational area of languages in Pennsylvania and increasing capacity in existing nuclear power stations.
The addition of this capacity can be made by higher fuel enrichment, re -regulation of the system to produce greater power or modernization of turbine.
The steps of Amazon followed the trend that was started last year by Microsoft, who collaborated with Contellation Energy to breathe new life into the reactor at the Three Mile Island.
The 1.6 billion project worth the US dollar will produce 835 Megawatt electricity. Meta also participated in this trend at the beginning of June 2025 by buying net energy attributes of a capacity of 1.1 Gigawatt in Illinois.
Amazon himself invested in a groundbreaking company (startup)) Modular reactors are small, x-energy, which is planning to build a capacity of 300 megawatts in Pacific Northwest and Virginia.
Talen said that the expansion of the SMR reactor and the construction aims to increase the new electricity capacity for the PJM network that manages the electricity supply in the eastern region of the United States. The statement is most likely to reduce the concerns of supervisors about the impact on customers.
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