Amazon, Google, and Meta pledged Wednesday to support tripling nuclear energy worldwide by 2050, according to CNBC. The tech giants joined a nonbinding commitment signed by over 20 countries at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in 2023.
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00:02Amazon, Google and Meta pledged Wednesday to support tripling nuclear energy worldwide
00:06by 2050, according to CNBC. Tech giants join a non-binding commitment
00:11signed by over 20 countries at the UN Climate Change Conference in 2023. Tech giants are
00:16major energy consumers due to AI expansion and see nuclear as essential alongside renewables.
00:21Amazon and Google invested in a small nuclear reactor last week,
00:24while Meta seeks proposals for up to four gigawatts of new nuclear capacity.
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