"After striking the deal, Amazon wanted to change the terms of its original agreement to buy 180 megawatts of additional power directly from the nuclear plant. Susquehanna agreed to sell it. But third parties weren’t happy about that, and their deal has become bogged down in a regulatory battle that will likely set a precedent for data centers, cryptocurrency mining operations, and other computing facilities with voracious appetites for clean electricity.

Putting a data center right next to a power plant so that it can draw electricity from it directly, rather than from the grid, is becoming more common as data centers seek out cheap, steady, carbon-free power." #datacenter #power #energy

IEEE Spectrum: Amazon Vies for Nuclear-Powered Data Center

The deal has become a flash point over energy fairness

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-data-center-nuclear-power #nuclear #datacenter #energy