"As a member of Washington's business community, Amazon is committed to investing in new nuclear energy technologies that can help power our operations and provide net-new, safe sources of carbon-free energy to the grid," said Kevin Miller, Amazon's vice president of Global Data Centers, in a news release announcing the project.

Amazon is anchoring a $500 million financing round for X-energy to develop modular nuclear reactors.The first sites in Washington and Virginia would provide carbon-free energy to meet growing demand.Amazon's announcement follows investments in nuclear energy from Microsoft and Google amid the AI boom.