Major U.S. tech companies have pledged to support an initiative to boost nuclear power generation globally, the World Nuclear Association said on Wednesday.
The groups of “large energy users” have backed the goal to at least triple global nuclear capacity by 2050, the association, which facilitated the pledge, said in a March 12 statement.
“This is the first time major businesses beyond the nuclear sector have come together to publicly back an extensive and concerted expansion of nuclear power to meet increasing global energy demand.”
A total of 14 companies signed the pledge, including Meta, Google, and Amazon. The three big tech companies have previously taken steps to adopt nuclear energy to meet their growing power needs, especially for data centers
In October 2024, Amazon announced it had signed contracts with Washington, Virginia, and Pennsylvania to construct small modular reactors (SMRs). Unlike traditional large reactors, SMRs are advanced nuclear reactors with a power generation capacity of up to 300 megawatts. […]
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