The group behind Facebook and Instagram, Meta, has entered into an agreement with a nuclear power plant in the state of Illinois in the United States. This is reported by the news agency dpa.
The power plant, located in the city of Clinton, will deliver all the electricity it produces to Meta for the next 20 years. The agreement will end up keeping the nuclear power plant, which was otherwise facing closure, alive. Starting in June 2027, Meta will purchase 1.1 GW of energy from the power plant.
According to Meta's head of renewable energy, Urvi Parekh, the power plant will power the group's ambitions to further develop the company's artificial intelligence.
- We are proud to help keep the Clinton plant operating in the coming years and demonstrate that the power plant is an important piece in strengthening American leadership in energy, she tells the news agency.
Several large companies will support nuclear power
In early March, the three large companies Amazon, Google and Meta signed a joint pledge to support the amount of energy from nuclear power to triple by 2050.
Tech giants such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google are rapidly expanding their data centers to meet the needs arising from AI - artificial intelligence. At the same time, they are looking for energy sources around the world to power the data centers.
In October 2024, Google signed an agreement with the company Kairos Power to receive power from small nuclear reactors. The first of a series of small modular reactors (SMRs) developed by Kairos as a result of the agreement with Google is expected to be in operation before the end of this decade. Amazon is investing in similar technologies, writes dpa.
Last year, it was also announced that the nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island would be reopened to supply power to Microsoft. The island was home to the worst nuclear accident in the United States, which occurred in 1979, when a reactor partially melted down.
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