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Amazon goes nuclear, plans to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors

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Amazon Web Services is investing over $500 million in nuclear power, announcing three projects from Virginia to Washington State .

AWS, Amazon ’s subsidiary in cloud computing, has a massive and increasing need for clean energy as it expands its services into generative AI .

Amazon is the latest large tech company to buy into nuclear power to fuel the growing demands from data centers.