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Another check, another strategic bet
Amazon apparently isn’t content with just selling you paper towels and cloud computing. Now it’s helping back X-Energy’s $1.02 billion IPO, a pretty loud signal that the company is still shopping for future energy solutions like a billionaire wandering through a Whole Foods aisle.
Why this matters
The move matters because nuclear — especially the small modular kind X-Energy is chasing — has become a shiny object for tech giants that need mountains of electricity without blowing up their carbon goals. If you’re Amazon, and your AI/data-center empire keeps getting hungrier, investing in power infrastructure is basically investing in your own future bill.
The investor angle
This doesn’t mean Amazon is suddenly becoming a utility. But it does mean:
- It’s willing to put real money behind next-gen energy supply chains
- It’s still leaning into the “we need cleaner baseload power yesterday” narrative
- It may be trying to secure a more durable energy mix for AWS and other operations
Big picture
Think of it like buying the generator before the blackout. Amazon’s bet on X-Energy is less about a one-day pop and more about making sure the lights stay on when its AI ambitions start pulling even more juice from the grid.