Amazon said Wednesday that it hopes to build nuclear power plants to help meet the enormous electricity needs of its data centers in eastern Oregon. The Seattle-based company said it will study a new technology,

The cloud computing and retail giant signed a deal to buy electricity generated by small modular nuclear reactors. Put Amazon on the list of big technology firms embracing new nuclear technologies to fuel their data centers.

Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, noted that Amazon’s nuclear plans aims to fast track the development of technology that is capable of supplying energy to its data centres for decades