Google signs billion-dollar deal to expand nuclear power capacity at multiple US plants

• Google announces 20-year plan to help Constellation upgrade its existing nuclear plants
• The company previously promised to "[bring] net-new energy to the grid"
• It has now enabled over 1.5GW of new nuclear energy across the US

Google has signed a major long-term partnership with Constellation Energy designed to boost energy generation for the PJM Interconnection – a grid network that covers 13 states and an estimated 67 million US citizens.

The expansion, of course, comes amid the company's rising energy consumption as it continues to expand its AI data centers to keep up with customer demand.

A 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) is set to support 890MW of new nuclear generating capacity, but with one key detail – six existing sites will increase their output, rather than this being Google funding the development of new nuclear facilities.

Google signs 20-year nuclear deal to generate 890MW of additional energy

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