Why we're backing America's existing nuclear plants
Google has entered into a new agreement with Constellation Energy to procure nuclear power. This partnership brings Google's total enabled U.S. nuclear capacity from uprates and restarts to over 1.5 GW.
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Google Cloud enterprise customers, data center operations teams, and energy grid stakeholders.
It demonstrates a critical architectural shift in how hyperscalers secure energy for AI infrastructure, prioritizing high-availability nuclear baseload to ensure operational continuity for power-intensive AI workloads.
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Google is shifting its energy procurement strategy toward firm, carbon-free baseload power by leveraging existing nuclear infrastructure. By facilitating uprates (increasing the power output of existing reactors) and restarts of decommissioned units, Google is securing a dedicated energy supply to support the high power density requirements of its data centers and AI compute clusters. This move signals a strategic pivot away from reliance on intermittent renewables alone, prioritizing grid stability and 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) to meet the escalating electricity demands of large-scale machine learning operations.