Meta signs nuclear energy deals to power Prometheus AI supercluster
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses while giving a speech introducing the new line of smart glasses during the Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, United States, on September 17, 2025.
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Meta On Friday, it announced deals with three nuclear energy providers, including one backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as part of its efforts to secure resources needed for its AI goals.
The deals with Vistra, TerraPower and Oklo, all of which work on nuclear energy technologies, apply to Meta’s Prometheus supercluster computing system, which is being built at a data center in New Albany, Ohio. No financial terms were disclosed.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Prometheus in July, describing the system as one of the keys to the development of the company’s advanced artificial intelligence efforts. Meta said it expects Prometheus to come online in 2026.
Meta, who is working with three companies on energy production, said the projects should add 6.6 gigawatts of energy by 2035, exceeding New Hampshire’s total demand.
“State-of-the-art data centers and AI infrastructure are essential to securing America’s position as a global leader in AI,” Meta policy chief Joel Kaplan said in a statement. he said.
The company said Vistra will help finance nuclear power plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania, extending the life of these facilities and increasing their energy production. The nuclear projects of the other two companies are still being developed.
Meta expects the deals to create “thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of long-term operational jobs.”
The deals mark Meta’s latest efforts to secure the energy needed to power its AI infrastructure as the company moves toward Zuckerberg’s goal of developing superintelligence, a term used to describe artificial intelligence that can vastly surpass humans’ abilities at countless tasks.
Meta’s mega-capital rivals are also turning to nuclear energy to accelerate their artificial intelligence work. Meta, Amazon And Google signed a commitment in March support Tripling of global nuclear energy production by 2050.
In June, Meta announced a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy that will allow the company to purchase nuclear power from the Clinton Clean Energy Center in Illinois starting in 2027.
Meta’s deal with TerraPower will fund the energy company’s two nuclear projects under development that could begin producing power by 2032, according to Friday’s announcement. Meta said TerraPower could obtain rights for more energy from up to six other nuclear power projects targeted for delivery by 2035.
Meanwhile, Oklo’s advanced nuclear technology campus in Pike County, Ohio, is expected to come online as soon as 2030, Meta 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 that Altman co-founded.
Altman resigned as chairman of Oklo’s board in April as a way to help the company win more customers from companies competing with OpenAI.
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