- He was going to build a new nuclear-powered data center - The plans were thwarted because the site is home to a rare bee species - In addition to environmental concerns, there were also regulatory issues - The discovery of the rare bee species made the project very difficult - The new data centers require a lot more power - A single AI query consumes 10 times more than a Google query - The company is exploring various carbon-free energy options - Increasingly, nuclear power is being considered for new data centers - For example, Microsoft, Google and AWS have announced such plans - If the project hadn't fallen through, Zuckerberg would have been first in the race - He would have the largest nuclear power plant for his data centers