Amazon plans to buy power over two decades from Maryland’s only nuclear plant under a deal that will allow Calvert Cliffs to boost electricity generation and run for another 20 years after its license expires.
The tech giant has committed to a 20-year power purchase agreement with Baltimore-based Constellation, owner of Calvert Cliffs Clean Energy Center in Lusby, the companies announced Wednesday.
The deal to buy 690 megawatts of existing and new power starts next year, enabling Amazon to lock in and manage the costs of electricity to power data centers and other facilities in a region including Maryland and 12 other states.
Amazon says it has no plans to build a data center at Calvert Cliffs in Calvert County. In August, Amazon Data Services withdrew a conceptual plan submitted in May for a data center on the plant site, after county voters strongly opposed data centers in the June primary. Later in August the Calvert County Board of County Commissioners passed a six-month…
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