Meta has joined its fellow tech company’s in teaming up with the energy sector.
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In March, some of the world’s biggest tech companies signed a pledge to triple the amount of nuclear energy used across the globe.
Now, Meta is backing up that pledge. The company announced a new 20-year partnership with Constellation Energy that will help Meta grow its data centers. Starting in 2027, Meta will buy around 1.1 gigawatts of energy from Constellation’s Clinton Clean Energy Center in Illinois. That accounts for the entire output of the plant’s lone nuclear reactor.
Without the deal, Constellation said the center was in danger of closing. CEO Joe Dominguez said, “We are proud to partner with Meta. They figured out that supporting the relicensing and expansion of existing plants is just as impactful as finding new sources of energy. Sometimes the most important part of our journey forward is to stop taking steps backwards.”
Meta is the latest tech company to partner with the energy sector. Microsoft had previously reached a deal with Constellation to reopen Three Mile Island. Google has a partnership with Kairos Power, and Amazon bought a data center that’s powered by a Susquehanna (SUS-KWUH-HAN-UH) nuclear plant.
Terms of the Meta-Constellation deal were not disclosed.
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