Tech giant Meta has announced a string of agreements with several nuclear companies to purchase up to 6,600 megawatts of new and existing capacity by the mid 2030s.
On Jan. 9, Meta signed deals with Oklo, Vistra Corp. and TerraPower. These deals come after Constellation Energy signed a 20-year power purchase agreement last year with the tech giant that owns Facebook.
The Meta press release did not reveal a dollar value for the agreements.
In the agreement with Bellevue, Wash.-based TerraPower, Meta will support development of up to eight Natrium reactors. According to TerraPower’s press release, the deal would provide Meta with 2,800 megawatts.
A Natrium reactor is a 345-megawatt sodium fast reactor with a molten salt-based energy storage system. The storage technology can boost the system’s capacity to 500-megawatts of power when needed.
With Natrium technology ‘s built-in energy storage system, the capacity can be boosted up to 4,000 megawatts, TerraPower said. Meta said it would provide funding to assist in the deployment of the Natrium plants, with delivery of initial units as early as 2032.
With Vista, Meta entered into 20-year power purchase deals for more than 2,600 megawatts from a combination of three Vistra-run plants in the PJM region. PJM is a regional transmission organization that serves parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia.
Meta is purchasing 2,176 megawatts of nuclear power from Vistra’s Perry Nuclear Power Plant and Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant in Ohio. It will also take an additional 433 megawatts through uprates at Vistra’s Perry, Davis-Besse and Beaver Valley power plants.
According to Vistra’s press release, the agreements will begin in late 2026 with additional capacity being added to the grid through 2034.
For Santa Clara, Calif.-based Oklo, Meta will advance plans to develop a 1,200-megawatt power campus in Pike County, Ohio at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site to power Meta’s data centers in the region.
Pre-construction work should start this year, with the first phase targeted to come online as soon as 2030, according to Oklo’s press release. The plans for the scalable powerhouse facility are expected to expand gradually to deliver up to the full target of 1,200 megawatts by 2034, Oklo said.
“Our agreements with Vistra, TerraPower, Oklo, and Constellation make Meta one of the most significant corporate purchasers of nuclear energy in American history,” Meta Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan said. “These projects are going to create thousands of skilled jobs in Ohio and Pennsylvania, add new energy to the grid, extend the life of three existing nuclear plants, and accelerate new reactor technologies.”