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Under the agreement announced Wednesday, Google will provide
capital for the projects, which the companies say will each
produce 600 megawatts of power capacity. No dollar figure for
Google's investment was given.
“Our collaboration with Elementl Power enhances our ability to
move at the speed required to meet this moment of AI and
American innovation," said Amanda Peterson Corio, Google's head
of data center energy.
Google and Elementl said they will collaborative with utility
and regulated power companies to identify and advance new
projects.
“We look forward to working with Google to execute these
projects and bring safe, carbon-free, baseload electricity to
the grid,” said Elementl Power Chairman and CEO Chris Colbert.
U.S. states have been positioning themselves to meet the tech
industry’s power needs as policymakers consider expanding
subsidies and gutting regulatory obstacles.
Last year, 25 states passed legislation to support advanced
nuclear energy, and lawmakers this year have introduced over 200
bills supportive of nuclear energy, according to the trade
association Nuclear Energy Institute.
Advanced reactor designs from competing firms are filling up the
federal government’s regulatory pipeline as the industry touts
them as a reliable, climate-friendly way to meet electricity
demands from tech giants desperate to power their fast-growing
artificial intelligence platforms.
In October, Amazon announced that it was investing in small
nuclear reactors, just two days after a similar announcement by
Google.
A month before that, Constellation Energy, the owner of the
shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant said it it
planned to restart the reactor so tech giant Microsoft could
secure power to supply its data centers.
Three Mile Island, located on the Susquehanna River just outside
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was the site of the nation’s worst
commercial nuclear power accident, in 1979.
Amazon, Google and Microsoft also have been investing in solar
and wind technologies, which make electricity without producing
greenhouse gas emissions.
Elementl Power was founded in 2022.
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