Meta wants to use nuclear power for its data centers

Meta has confirmed its plans to make use of to gas US knowledge facilities. The corporate introduced that it’s accepting proposals from nuclear power builders to work on the challenge, with the purpose of including between one and 4 gigawatts of nuclear power capability “beginning within the early 2030s.”

The corporate’s states that Meta is searching for companions which have expertise with “both Small Modular Reactors (SMR) or bigger nuclear reactors.” Axios that the corporate is “geographically agnostic” concerning the location of potential nuclear websites. The corporate beforehand had plans to construct a nuclear-powered knowledge middle, The Monetary Occasions earlier this yr, however the plans had been scuttled after the invention of a uncommon species of bees close to the positioning.

“As new improvements deliver impactful technological developments throughout sectors and help financial progress, we consider that nuclear power will help present agency, baseload energy to help the expansion wants of the electrical grids that energy each our knowledge facilities (the bodily infrastructure on which Meta’s platforms function) in addition to the communities round them,” the corporate wrote in a press release.

Meta isn’t the one main tech firm seeking to nuclear energy to assist energy its AI ambitions. Google not too long ago introduced to construct a number of reactors within the US, with the purpose of including 500 megawatts of nuclear energy from SMRs. Microsoft additionally mentioned this yr it desires the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania to gas its AI improvement.