The commission’s ruling against linking the technology giant’s facility with a Pennsylvania reactor spurred a drop in nuclear stock prices.

Plans by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to build an AI data center in the US that runs on nuclear power were thwarted in part because a rare species of bee was discovered on land earmarked for the project, according to people familiar with the matter.

Meta had plans to build an AI data center in the US that relies on nuclear power — it even already knew where it wanted the facility to be built. According to the Financial Times, though, the company had to scrap its plans,

Meta’s plans to build a nuclear-powered AI data center in the U.S. have stalled due to the discovery of a rare bee species on the intended site. The Financial Times reported that the land earmarked for Meta’s ambitious project,

As a result, several major players have been investing in new power generation centers to fuel their ongoing AI-based developments. Consequently, nuclear energy has gained popularity due to its emission-free nature.