{"id":8965,"date":"2026-10-19T16:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=8965"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:55:42","slug":"amazon-x-energy-aep-nuclear-indiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=8965","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is funding a new nuclear plant in Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Amazon has signed an agreement with X-energy and American Electric Power (AEP) to fund the building of a new nuclear energy facility in Indiana. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/sustainability\/amazon-nuclear-energy-indiana-x-energy-aep?utm_source=rss\">The proposed plant<\/a>, which would replace the now defunct coal-fueled Breed Generating Station in Fairbanks, Sullivan County, aims to provide up to 960 megawatts of carbon-free energy for both the regional power grid and Amazon\u2019s data centers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">No timeline for construction or operation has been announced for the facility, which Amazon says \u201ccould\u201d create 1,000 construction jobs and 100 permanent roles. The facility in Indiana is targeting to build 12 Xe-100 SMR\u2019s, an advanced (but unproven) reactor that\u2019s still undergoing development and licensing. These reactors can be cooled using either air, water, or a hybrid solution of both, which Amazon says should allow them to be deployed in water-constrained regions without impacting water demand in local communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Indiana also happens to be home to a famously expensive and uncompleted energy project called the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marble_Hill_Nuclear_Power_Plant\">Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant<\/a>. It was abandoned half-finished in 1983 after $2.5 billion had already been sunk into it, and has been under continued demolition since 2008. Terms for Amazon\u2019s agreement in Fairbanks haven\u2019t been disclosed, so we can\u2019t compare the cost between the facilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">This marks the second nuclear energy project that Amazon and X-energy are collaborating on, with the collective goal of working with regional utilities to deploy more than 5 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity in the US by 2039. In October last year, Amazon shared an early preview of its first planned nuclear plant, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/801257\/amazon-nuclear-energy-reactor-first-look\">Cascade Advanced Energy Facility<\/a> in Washington. That project is similarly set to build 12 advanced reactors and create local jobs, but construction isn\u2019t expected to start until the end of this decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Amazon is one of several tech companies, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/5\/24261405\/google-microsoft-amazon-tech-data-center-nuclear-energy\">Meta, Microsoft, and Google<\/a>, that are exploring their own nuclear energy projects to power AI data centers. Investing in energy grid infrastructure was also one of the commitments that Amazon outlined in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/1003929\/amazon-ai-data-center-blog-warning\">lengthy blog post<\/a> earlier this month that aimed to sway some of the growing negativity around data center projects, though it\u2019ll be many years before anyone \u2014 including Amazon \u2014 can reap the benefits of these new facilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/1013735\/amazon-x-energy-aep-nuclear-indiana\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has signed an agreement with X-energy and American Electric Power (AEP) to fund the building of a new nuclear energy facility in Indiana. 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