Google has secured a massive 3,590-megawatt power contract with Constellation Energy across the nation’s largest electrical transmission network, with dedicated nuclear generation making up roughly 25% of the total energy supply, both companies announced on Tuesday (October 6). The sweeping commercial transaction will catalyse more than $4.3 billion in fresh capital investment by Constellation. Those funds will be used to boost production capacity across several existing nuclear reactors operated by the utility throughout the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions.
First is: Google signed a two-decade power purchase pact for 890 megawatts generated by multiple nuclear facilities owned by Constellation. Deliveries from the first upgraded nuclear plant are scheduled to begin in 2028. Secondly, in addition to the nuclear allocation, Google secured a long-term contract for 2,700 megawatts within the PJM Interconnection grid.
“We’re committed to meeting our growth responsibly by actively investing in clean, reliable power that brings new capacity to our nation’s grids,” said Amanda Peterson Corio, Global Head of Energy and Power at Google. The massive supply arrangement is split into two major agreements designed to guarantee clean baseload power alongside wider grid stability. These sites will undergo technical upgrades to squeeze higher power output from existing reactors. Microsoft and Constellation have struck an agreement to bring the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania back online exclusively to run Microsoft data center workloads.
Further, Google previously agreed to an arrangement to restart NextEra Energy’s dormant nuclear facility in Iowa.