It is the first deployment under an agreement that Google and Kairos signed last year to the launch the startup's nuclear technology at a commercial scale.

The Tennessee Valley Authority agreed to buy electricity from a small nuclear power plant that’s expected to go into service in 2030 and will help power data centers owned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google.

Google, Kairos Power, and TVA have signed a deal to deliver 50 MWe from the Hermes 2 advanced reactor to Google data centres in Tennessee and Alabama.