Buzzkill: How bees reportedly stung Meta’s nuclear plans for AI data centre

Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp has been catching up with like OpenAI, Google and Perplexity in the AI space. However, the company’s plan to build a nuclear power plant to power its AI data centre may have been thwarted because of a rare bee species.

Reportedly, Meta was in the process of finalising a deal with the existing nuclear power plant operator to build a new data centre to power its ongoing and upcoming artificial intelligence projects. But according to the Financial Times, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff members that in a meeting the deal fell through after a rare bee species was found inhabiting the land where the power plant was to be built.