Mark Zuckerberg and Meta‘s bid to power AI systems with nuclear energy has apparently been derailed by a species of rare bees.
Plans to build a new AI data center near an unspecified nuclear plant, which may have become the first nuclear-powered facility of its kind, hit a roadblock after the pollinators were discovered on the land, according to a November 4 Financial Times report.
Zuckerberg confirmed the project’s setback at an internal company meeting last week.
Surveyors reportedly stumbled upon the endangered bees during an environmental review of the area, forcing regulators to suspend the project. Details on the species of bee or the precise project location remained under wraps.
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