Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gives a speech introducing Meta’s new line of smart glasses wearing Meta Ray-Ban display glasses during the MetaConnect event held at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, USA on September 17, 2025.
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meta announced Friday deals with three nuclear power producers, including one backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as part of an effort to secure the resources needed for its AI ambitions.
The deals with Vistra, TerraPower and Oklo, all of which work on nuclear technology, are for Meta’s Prometheus supercluster computing system being built in its New Albany, Ohio, data center. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Prometheus in July, describing the system as one of the keys to advancing the company’s efforts in advanced artificial intelligence. Meta said it expects Prometheus to be online sometime in 2026.
Working with the three companies on energy production, Mehta said the projects should add 6.6 gigawatts of electricity, more than New Hampshire’s total demand, by 2035.
“State-of-the-art data centers and AI infrastructure are essential to securing America’s position as a global leader in AI,” Meta Policy Director Joel Kaplan said in a statement.
The company said it will help finance Vistra’s nuclear power plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania, extending the lives of these facilities and increasing energy production. Two other companies’ nuclear projects are still in development.
Meta expects the deal will create “thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of long-term operational jobs.”
The deal marks Meta’s latest effort to secure the energy needed to power its AI infrastructure as it moves toward Zuckerberg’s goal of developing superintelligence, a term used to describe AI that can vastly exceed human capabilities at numerous tasks.
Meta’s mega-cap rivals are also turning to nuclear power to fuel their AI efforts. meta, Amazon and google In March, it signed a pledge supporting tripling global nuclear production by 2050.
In June, Meta announced a 20-year agreement with Constellation Energy to purchase nuclear power from the company’s Clinton Clean Energy Center in Illinois starting in 2027.
Meta’s deal with TerraPower will fund two of the company’s nuclear projects in development, which could begin generating electricity by 2032, according to Friday’s announcement. Meta said it could acquire rights to more energy from up to six of TerraPower’s other nuclear energy projects targeted for delivery by 2035.
Meanwhile, Oklo’s advanced nuclear technology campus in Pike County, Ohio, is expected to be operational as early as 2030, Mehta said.
OpenAI’s Altman is one of Oklo’s largest investors, owning a 4.3% stake worth about $650 million as of Thursday’s close, according to FactSet. Oklo went public in 2024 through a special purpose acquisition company co-founded by Altman.
Altman stepped down as chairman of Oklo’s board in April to secure more customers from companies that compete with OpenAI.
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