In an era when artificial intelligence and cloud computing have quietly become the nervous system of modern commerce, the machinery that keeps those systems alive has grown correspondingly consequential. Generac and Amazon have formalized a $2.4 billion long-term supply agreement for generators — a contract that binds a power equipment manufacturer to one of the world's largest technology companies and reveals how deeply the infrastructure of the digital age depends on the unglamorous certainty of backup power. The deal is both a commercial milestone for Generac and a candid admission by Amazo