Amazon just reserved an entire nuclear plant in Pennsylvania for the next 17 years — locking in 2 gigawatts to power its hungriest AI data centers

[1srelluc]

MSN

The Susquehanna Steam Electric Station sits along the west bank of the Susquehanna River in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, its two boiling-water reactors generating enough carbon-free electricity to power roughly 1.5 million homes. By mid-2026, virtually all of that output is spoken for by a single customer: Amazon.

Under a 17-year agreement with plant owner Talen Energy, Amazon has secured approximately 2 gigawatts of dedicated nuclear power for a sprawling data center campus built directly adjacent to the plant. The arrangement, which routes electricity behind the meter rather than through the regional wholesale grid, represents the largest known commitment of nuclear generation to a single private buyer in the United States.

So there you go, some say that AI will bring more nuke power on line. But what's the point when you have AI pulling "behind the meter" shenanigans like that?

Basically Amazon AI just took an existing nuke plant off the grid for their own use for 17 years.

This is not a right or left issue as some here think, AI should be opposed by both with equal enthusiasm when they do stuff like that.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

This makes sense.
The government will need the AI to track the protests resulting from the brownouts created by the AI used to track protests.

I call this 'cyclical freedom'.

 

[the watcher]

The line blurs even more between public financed utilities and corporate appetites. Sort of like Nestles privatizing Californias water supply.

 

[1srelluc]

The line blurs even more between public financed utilities and corporate appetites. Sort of like Nestles privatizing Californias water supply.

A bit overstated but as best as I can tell CA did not win it's fight.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

MSN

The Susquehanna Steam Electric Station sits along the west bank of the Susquehanna River in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, its two boiling-water reactors generating enough carbon-free electricity to power roughly 1.5 million homes. By mid-2026, virtually all of that output is spoken for by a single customer: Amazon.

Under a 17-year agreement with plant owner Talen Energy, Amazon has secured approximately 2 gigawatts of dedicated nuclear power for a sprawling data center campus built directly adjacent to the plant. The arrangement, which routes electricity behind the meter rather than through the regional wholesale grid, represents the largest known commitment of nuclear generation to a single private buyer in the United States.

So there you go, some say that AI will bring more nuke power on line. But what's the point when you have AI pulling "behind the meter" shenanigans like that?

Basically Amazon AI just took an existing nuke plant off the grid for their own use for 17 years.

This is not a right or left issue, AI should be opposed by both with equal enthusiasm when they do stuff like that.

It's wrong out in the trillions column.

 

[Hafar1014]

This makes sense.
The government will need the AI to track the protests resulting from the brownouts created by the AI used to track protests.

I call this 'cyclical freedom'.

There wont be brown outs because we are stopping renewable energy and replacing it with fossil fuels and nuclear.

 

[1srelluc]

I wonder why it was 17 years?

 

[1srelluc]

There wont be brown outs because we are stopping renewable energy and replacing it with fossil fuels and nuclear.

Did you even read the article?

 

[Hafar1014]

Did you even read the article?

Gates who no longer supports climate change knows Amazon cant exists if we keep building renewable energy. Thats why 3 Mile Island is being restarted.

 

[1srelluc]

Gates who no longer supports climate change knows Amazon cant exists if we keep building renewable energy. Thats why 3 Mile Island is being restarted.

That makes no sense at all.