Amazon to invest in 3 nuclear plants as it scrambles to power AI programs

Amazon is the latest tech giant to embrace nuclear energy as it scrambles to supply electricity-hogging artificial intelligence programs.Amazon Web Services, the Seattle-based e-retailer’s cloud computing unit, said Wednesday it will invest more than half a billion dollars in three projects — one in Washington state, one in Virginia and another in Pennsylvania.The Virginia and Washington state deals obligate AWS to put up the money for power utilities to study the feasibility of adding small modular reactor ...