Amazon announced Wednesday that it entered into an agreement with Dominion Energy to pay for the development of a small modular reactor as the utility explores building one at its North Anna Power Station,

Amazon is the latest large tech company to buy into nuclear power to fuel the growing demands from data centers.

Nuclear power is picking up steam as a solution to data center's electricity demands, and tech companies are taking note. It could have ramifications for the hundreds of data centers found throughout Northern Virginia.