Amazon has also faced a recent setback after the government on Monday rejected a request to increase the amount of power a nuclear plant can direct to one of its data centers. It’s still allowed to use 300 megawatts from the Susquehanna plant but initially sought 480 megawatts.

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 new AI data center near an unspecified nuclear power plant hit a roadblock after rare pollinators were discovered on the land.

Meta’s (META) plans to build a U.S. nuclear-powered AI data center were thwarted in part after a rare bee species was found on land

Environmental regulators reportedly quashed Mark Zuckerberg’s nuclear plant partnership meant to help power Meta’s ongoing artificial intelligence projects. Details remain scarce, but the main reason for pausing plans allegedly comes down to one issue— rare bees.

Plans by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to build an AI data centre 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.