Zuckerberg's plans for nuclear power for data centers thwarted by rare bees
- 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