Google enters massive 3.6-GW power deal with Constellation Energy
Google has signed a massive 3.6-gigawatt power purchase agreement with Constellation Energy to support its growing data center electricity needs. The deal includes significant investments in nuclear energy capacity across the U.S. Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions.
Why it matters
This deal underscores the massive energy demands of the AI boom and the increasing reliance of big tech companies on nuclear power to meet carbon-neutral goals while ensuring grid reliability.
Google has contracted for 3,590 megawatts of power from Constellation Energy in the U.S.' largest power grid, with new nuclear energy accounting for about a quarter of that supply, the companies said on Tuesday.
The deal will enable more than $4.3 billion of new investment by Constellation and involves adding capacity at several of the power company's nuclear reactors in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, the companies said.
Major tech companies are racing to secure massive amounts of electricity supplies to power data centers across the US by striking unprecedented deals with the country's power companies.
Over the last two years, Constellation unveiled an agreement to restart its Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania to serve Microsoft data centers, while Google contracted to restart NextEra Energy's nuclear power plant in Iowa.
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