Meta signs 3 deals for nuclear energy to power AI data centers

Meta has struck three deals to fuel its artificial intelligence data centers, ensuring enough energy to light the equivalent of around 5 million homes.

Facebook’s parent company on Friday announced deals with TerraPower, Oklo and Vistra for nuclear power for its Prometheus AI data center being built in New Albany, Ohio. Meta announced Prometheus, which will be a 1-gigawatt cluster spanning multiple data center buildings, in July. It should go live this year.

Financial terms of the agreements with TerraPower, Oklo and Vistra were not disclosed.

Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg, said in a statement Friday that the three deals would support up to 6.6 gigawatts of new and existing clean energy by 2035. A single gigawatt, according to a general industry standard for utilities, can power about 750,000 homes.

“These projects add reliable, firm power to the grid, strengthen the U.S. nuclear supply chain, and support new and existing jobs to build and operate U.S. power plants,” the company said.

Meta said its agreement with TerraPower will provide financing that will support the development of two new Natrium units capable of generating up to 690 megawatts of guaranteed power with delivery as early as 2032. The agreement also gives Meta rights to the energy from up to six other Natrium units capable of generating 2.1 gigawatts and scheduled for delivery by 2035.

Meta will also purchase more than 2.1 gigawatts of power from two operating Vistra nuclear plants in Ohio, in addition to power from expansions of the two Ohio plants and a third Vistra plant in Beaver Valley, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The deal with Oklo, which counts OpenAI’s Sam Altman among its largest investors, will help develop a 1.2 gigawatt campus in Pike County, Ohio, to support Meta’s data centers in the region.

Nuclear power deals come after Meta announced in June it had reached an agreement 20-year contract with Constellation Energy to obtain electricity from its nuclear power plant in Clinton, Illinois.