Amazon announces 960 MW nuclear plant in Indiana for data centers
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Amazon announced an agreement with X-energy and American Electric Power (AEP) to help develop a 960 MW nuclear plant in Indiana. The project would use 12 Xe-100 modular reactors, be built on the site of a former coal plant and have Amazon as its first customer; the plant would also connect to the public grid. The company says it plans to bring more than 5 GW of new nuclear capacity online in the US by 2039, with the Indiana project as the second part of that plan. The investment amount was not disclosed.
According to The Register, the US still has no commercial small modular reactor in operation, and X-energy has not yet built an operational reactor; the Xe-100 remains under development and licensing. Amazon says the project could create more than 1,000 construction jobs and more than 100 permanent positions, but no schedule for generating electricity was announced. TechCrunch says the agreement is three times larger than Amazon and X-energy’s first deal.
Why it matters · editorial interpretation
The agreement links Amazon’s data-center expansion to modular nuclear technology that, according to The Register, has no commercial unit in operation and remains under development and licensing. Since the investment and electricity-generation timeline were not disclosed, the announced scale still depends on those steps and on project execution.
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