Meta has confirmed its plans to make use of to gasoline US knowledge facilities. The corporate introduced that it’s accepting proposals from nuclear vitality builders to work on the mission, with the purpose of including between one and 4 gigawatts of nuclear vitality capability “beginning within the early 2030s.”
The corporate’s states that Meta is in search of 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 heart, The Monetary Occasions earlier this 12 months, 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 development, we consider that nuclear vitality might 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 trying to nuclear energy to assist energy its AI ambitions. Google just lately introduced to construct a number of reactors within the US, with the purpose of including 500 megawatts of nuclear energy from SMRs. Microsoft additionally stated this 12 months it needs the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania to gasoline its AI growth.
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