Amazon has signed an agreement with X-energy and American Electric Power (AEP) to fund a new nuclear energy facility in Indiana, the companies announced Monday. The proposed plant would be built at the site of the demolished coal-fueled Breed Generating Station in Fairbanks, Sullivan County, just south of Terre Haute.
The facility aims to provide up to 960 megawatts of carbon-free energy for the regional power grid and for Amazon's data centers. AEP would operate the plant, while X-energy would supply 12 Xe-100 small modular reactors (SMRs) — an advanced reactor design that is still in development and licensing. No timeline for construction or operation has been announced.
Amazon nuclear plant in Indiana: the key numbers
According to The Verge and TechCrunch, the project would be the second commercial agreement between Amazon and X-energy, and it is three times larger than the first, announced two years ago. Amazon has invested heavily in X-energy, leading a $700 million Series C-1 round in October 2024.
The two companies have said they ultimately plan to deploy more than 5 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity in the US by 2039. Amazon's first planned nuclear plant, the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility in Washington, would also use 12 advanced reactors, but construction there is not expected to start until the end of this decade.
- Capacity: up to 960 megawatts of carbon-free power
- Reactors: 12 Xe-100 small modular reactors from X-energy
- Operator: American Electric Power (AEP)
