Meta signs three nuclear power deals to help support its AI data centers

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Facebook genitor Meta has reached atomic powerfulness deals with 3 companies arsenic it continues to look for energy sources for its artificial quality information centers

ByMICHELLE CHAPMAN AP concern writer

Facebook genitor Meta has reached atomic powerfulness deals with 3 companies arsenic it continues to look for energy sources for its artificial quality information centers.

Meta struck agreements with TerraPower, Oklo and Vistra for atomic powerfulness for its Prometheus AI information halfway that is being built successful New Albany, Ohio. Meta announced Prometheus, which volition beryllium a 1-gigawatt clump spanning crossed aggregate information halfway buildings, successful July. It's anticipated to travel online this year.

Financial presumption of the deals with TerraPower, Oklo and Vistra were not disclosed.

The Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta said successful a connection connected Friday that the 3 deals volition enactment up to 6.6 gigawatts of caller and existing cleanable vigor by 2035.

“These projects adhd reliable and steadfast powerfulness to the grid, reenforce America’s atomic proviso chain, and enactment caller and existing jobs to physique and run American powerfulness plants,” the institution said.

Meta said its statement with TerraPower volition supply backing that supports the improvement of 2 caller Natrium units susceptible of generating up to 690 megawatts of steadfast powerfulness with transportation arsenic aboriginal arsenic 2032. The woody besides provides Meta with rights for vigor from up to six different Natrium units susceptible of producing 2.1 gigawatts and targeted for transportation by 2035.

Meta volition besides bargain much than 2.1 gigawatts of vigor from 2 operating Vistra atomic powerfulness plants successful Ohio, successful summation to the vigor from expansions astatine the 2 Ohio plants and a 3rd Vistra works successful Pennsylvania.

The woody with Oklo, which counts OpenAI's Sam Altman arsenic 1 of its largest investors, volition assistance to make a 1.2 gigawatt powerfulness field successful Pike County, Ohio to enactment Meta’s information centers successful the region.

The atomic powerfulness agreements travel aft Meta announced successful June that it reached a 20-year woody with Constellation Energy.