E-commerce giant %Amazon (NASDAQ: $AMZN ) has become the latest technology company to turn to %NuclearPower to help meet its growing data centre electricity needs. The Seattle-based company says it has signed agreements to develop and draw energy from small modular nuclear reactors.

Amazon is buying a stake in US nuclear developer X-energy, as part of a collaboration with the company aimed at deploying small modular reactors to provide low carbon electricity to power its data centres.

The plans come as the owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant said last month it plans to restart the reactor so tech giant Microsoft can buy the power to supply its data centres