In an effort to fuel their data centres, Meta Platforms has signed multiple agreements with nuclear power plants to provide them with electricity.
The social media giant will pre-pay for power from a 1.2-gigawatt development by Oklo and a 2.8-gigawatt project by TerraPower, facilities backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and billionaire Bill Gates, respectively.
The agreement with Oklo will help fund a 206-acre site in the state of Ohio. The start-up expects to begin construction this year with a goal of coming online by 2030.
Oklo CEO and founder Jacob DeWitte stated Meta’s “funding commitment in support of early procurement and development activity is a major step in moving advanced nuclear forward”.
It also reached a separate deal for 2.1 gigawatts from existing nuclear power plants owned by Vistra. The financial terms for the nuclear deals are not available.
The agreements are on top of Meta’s announcement in June 2025 to buy the output of a nuclear plant in Illinois owned by Constellation Energy.
Meta stated those agreements may end up totalling 6.6 gigawatts of new and existing clean energy by 2035. It now claims to be as one of the largest corporate purchasers of nuclear energy in US history.
The projects are expected to create thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of long-term operational roles, according to Meta.
Last year, Meta stated it planned to invest over $600 billion in US infrastructure and jobs by 2028, as part of its focus to build more AI data centres and increase its compute capabilities.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a big proponent of developing superintelligence, a theoretical form of AI which would not just match but vastly exceed human intelligence across every domain of cognitive ability.
Source: Mobile World Live
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