Technology companies may be vocal for their love for advanced nuclear energy – the cheerful trend that was naturalizing the energy sector – but they continue to add renewable energy.
Meta has recently signed a deal with the Zilestra renewable Spanish developer for 595 MW of solar energy in Texas, just two weeks after signing a separate solar deal with the Facilities Company. It is an important purchase of technology, and it represents approximately 5 % of the bump to Gigawatts, which is more than 12 years of renewable capacity that is currently under the contract.
This advertisement comes at a time when the CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg maintains the ambitious AI strategy – which will require huge capital investments in data centers.
Meta is racing to make the Llama 4 open source a competitor to closed source competitors such as Openai and Anthropic. While Deepseek showed that models can be developed more efficiently, their approach does not necessarily apply to leading models such as Llama 4.
Zuckerberg said during a Wednesday’s profit call that Meta plans to spend $ 60 billion this year on capital investments, most of which will go towards the infrastructure of the data center, describing it as a “strategic advantage” of the company.
Like many of its peers, Meta bets that nuclear reactors can provide stable energy for their future mathematical needs, which requires proposals from 1 to 4 GB of capacity to reach online in the early thirties. One Gigawatt is enough for the authority of about 750,000 homes.
But the company cannot wait until then to add it to the data center fingerprint. Meta and others publish huge amounts of capital to build databases, which need large amounts of energy. ConkePoint has some experts who predict that half of all new artificial intelligence databases will weaken in 2027.
Nuclear power plants take years for construction, and the most recently advanced crop of commercial reactors has not yet been proven. Natural gas power plants are slightly faster.
It is not possible to compete with renewable publishing speed.
The solar energy farm can be brought online within 18 months, and because technology is normative, parts of the power plant can begin to connect the power before connecting the last plate.
This speed allowed the sound of renewable energy such as wind and solar energy and storing the battery over the network to continue collecting new contracts from technology companies. In addition to this week’s deal, Meta announced earlier this month that it had bought 200 megawatts of Engie solar energy, which will come online later this year. Elsewhere, Microsoft helps spread $ 9 billion in renewable energy sources with Acadia Infrastructure Capital, while Google establishes a renovable fund worth $ 20 billion with a height of energy and TPG height.
