Amazon Secures 8 Gigawatts of New Power in Nuclear and Natural Gas Expansion as AI Electricity Crunch Reshapes Cloud Business

Amazon has revealed two massive power commitments—a nuclear deal in Maryland and a natural gas plant acquisition in Texas—as electricity scarcity becomes the primary constraint on AI infrastructure scaling. The company acquired an 8,000-acre hyperscale data center campus in Pecos County, Texas, that will be powered by a 7.65-gigawatt natural gas power plant, one of the largest planned fossil-fuel generators in the United States. Simultaneously, Amazon locked in a 20-year, 690-megawatt power purchase agreement with Constellation Energy at Maryland's Calvert Cliffs nuclear facility, with plans for 190 megawatts of new clean capacity by 2032, backed by over $3 billion in infrastructure investment.