The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) signed a new power purchase agreement (PPA) with Kairos Power to deliver up to 50 megawatts (MW) of nuclear energy from Kairos Power’s Hermes 2 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
The energy will be used to powers Google data centers in Tennessee and Alabama.
The agreement is the first deployment under Kairos Power’s landmark deal with Google to enable 500 MW of nuclear capacity to come online by 2035 in support of Google’s load growth. To accelerate the delivery to Google, Kairos Power will increase Hermes 2’s output from 28 MW to 50 MW…