Meta's nuclear power plans were foiled by bees — yes, bees
Nov 4, 2024 · Meta’s plan to join the tech race for nuclear power has reportedly been foiled by bees.A rare species of bee was found on land where the company was planning to put a nuclear-powered artificial ...
Endangered bees stop Meta’s plan for nuclear-powered AI data …
Nov 4, 2024 · Meta's rivals have struck deals to use nuclear power for some data centers. Plans by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to build an AI data center in the US that runs on nuclear power were thwarted in part ...
Regulators deliver successive blows to Amazon and Meta’s nuclear power …
Nov 4, 2024 · Tim De Chant. 11:00 AM PST · November 4, 2024. Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft have placed big bets on nuclear power to secure electricity for their data centers as AI and cloud computing have sent ...
Rare bees kill Meta’s nuclear-powered AI data center plans
Nov 4, 2024 · Credit: Deposit Photos. Environmental regulators reportedly quashed Mark Zuckerberg’s nuclear plant partnership meant to help power Meta’s ongoing artificial intelligence projects. Details ...
Meta's new AI data center called off because of rare bees | Fortune
Nov 5, 2024 · Meta did not respond to a request for comment and declined to comment to the FT. For AI developers, nuclear power remains one of the more promising possibilities for energy. In the U.S., nuclear ...
Meta's nuclear-powered AI ambitions appear to have been
Nov 5, 2024 · Meta had hoped to follow Google and Amazon's lead, aiming to strike a deal with a nuclear energy provider to power their AI ambitions. The plan was to build a new data centre right next to an ...
Data Center Nuclear Power Update: Microsoft, Constellation, …
3 days ago · Meta, which has been net-zero since 2020, declined to comment. As major hyperscaler competitors like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft secure nuclear power deals to meet rising energy demands for AI, Meta's hunt for carbon-free energy options, including nuclear, is only to be expected. In recent months, as noted above, Microsoft revived the Three ...
Meta’s nuclear datacenter plan reportedly stung by bees
Nov 4, 2024 · Meta's plan to build a nuclear-powered datacenter for AI workloads has been undone by bugs, specifically bees. CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told employees at an all-hands meeting that the discovery of a rare species of bees on the prospective build site had contributed to the cancellation of the datacenter project, according to The Financial Times.
Endangered Bees Halt Meta's Nuclear-Powered AI Data Center …
Nov 4, 2024 · Meta's plans to set up a nuclear-powered AI data center in the US have been halted in part because a rare bee species was found on the land, the Financial Times reports. Meta CEO Mark...
Why Big Tech is turning to nuclear to power its energy-intensive …
Oct 15, 2024 · Technology giants are turning to nuclear energy to power the energy-intensive data centers needed to train and run the massive artificial intelligence models behind today’s generative AI ...