While Seattle-based Amazon is best known for its dominant position as an online retailer, the company has been in the cloud computing space since 2006 with Amazon Web Services, a subdivision that has since become a leader in its category. It is reportedly generating around 17% of Amazon’s overall revenue, which hit $575 billion last year.

Amazon is joining Google and Microsoft in the pivot towards nuclear energy, aiming to meet rising demand while hitting climate targets. View on euronews

Amazon is the latest Big Tech firm to ink deals for nuclear power, following Google and Microsoft, as artificial intelligence drives a need for more energy.

The deals illustrate efforts by technology companies to meet the electricity demands of artificial intelligence.

Amazon announced a series of deals Wednesday aimed at building out small modular nuclear reactors, becoming the latest major technology company to invest in nuclear energy as Big Tech contends

Large technology companies are investing billions of dollars in nuclear energy as an emissions-free source of electricity for artificial intelligence and other businesses.

The cloud computing and retail giant signed a deal to buy electricity generated by small modular nuclear reactors. Put Amazon on the list of big technology firms embracing new nuclear technologies to fuel their data centers.

Amazon and Google inked new deals to secure power from US uclear reactors to fuel their data centers focused on artificial intelligence (AI)

Amazon today announced agreements supporting the construction of a next-generation nuclear power plant in its home state of Washington — marking the latest development in the tech-driven resurgence of nuclear energy.

Amazon is investing in small modular nuclear reactors. while they’re radiation safe, they’re a risky investment.