US regulator rejects bid to boost Amazon data center with Pennsylvania nuclear plant by: Julia Shapero, The Hill. Posted: Nov 4, 2024 / 02:56 PM EST. Updated: Nov 4, 2024 / 02:56 PM EST.

Nuclear-power stocks slumped on Monday after US regulators barred a plant from supplying extra power to an Amazon data center. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected the deal between ...

Energy regulators are trying to determine how to respond to the recent wave of deals between nuclear plants and data centers that some worry could threaten grid reliability and raise utility bills.

Amazon Web Services paid Talen $650 million in March for a 960-megawatt data center campus adjacent to Susquehanna, and signed a long-term agreement to buy power from the plant.

Talen Energy in March sold the data center campus to Amazon for $650 million, which would be powered by the nuclear plant in a first-of-its-kind deal.

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