The company is investing in small modular reactor projects to help it move to a net-zero carbon company by 2040.

The third project that Amazon detailed today is a collaboration with utility Dominion Energy. The companies will explore the possibility of launching an SMR project near Dominion Energy’s existing North Anna nuclear power station. The plant is located in Virginia, which is home to many of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud data centers.

Amazon ($AMZN) is the latest technology company to turn to nuclear power to meet its data center electricity needs. The e-commerce company has

The cloud computing and retail giant signed a deal to buy electricity generated by small modular nuclear reactors. Put Amazon on the list of big technology firms embracing new nuclear technologies to fuel their data centers.

Amazon partners with Dominion Energy for nuclear project. AWS has partnered with Dominion Energy, a Virginia-based utility company. The collaboration will see the two explore the

Amazon, which has been hunting new clean energy resources to power its growing Amazon Web Services data center operations in eastern Oregon, is turning to nuclear power in the region.

Amazon announced significant investments in nuclear energy on Wednesday, joining other tech giants in aiming to meet the high electric power demands of cloud computing and artificial intelligence using atomic energy.

Amazon Web Services to invest more than half a billion dollars in three projects --one in Washington State, one in Virginia and one in Pennsylvania.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), is betting big on nuclear power as it partners with Dominion Energy (NYSE:D) and Energy Northwest to meet its data centers' energy needs.