Claim · 2024-12-03 · announcement · Stated in source · Supported

Meta announced on 3 December 2024 a request for proposals to identify nuclear energy developers, aiming to add 1–4 GW of new US nuclear generation capacity delivered from the early 2030s, citing grids that power its data centers.

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Meta → announced plan → Request for proposals for 1–4 GW of new US nuclear generation capacity

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Claim and evidence

Metaannounced plan ↓Request for proposals for 1–4 GW of new US nuclear generation capacity

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2024-12-03 · announcement
Figure measures: generation capacity
Stated dates (targets and terms, not events): delivery target: early 2030s
Quantity: up to · 4 GW of new nuclear generation capacity (as worded: a range of 1 to 4 GW)

Scope and limitsA procurement process, not an agreement. Its January 2026 outcomes are recorded separately (recorded separately).

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Accelerating the Next Wave of Nuclear to Power AI Innovation

Meta (Meta Sustainability) · 2024-12-03

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Source excerpt

“Our aim is to add 1-4 GW of new nuclear generation capacity in the U.S. to be delivered starting in the early 2030s”

Location in source paragraph beginning “Our aim is to add 1-4…”

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Meta (Meta Sustainability)
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 cfda5e886b4c49ce0ff9abe2b19168bbf3c4ee7470cedbf465b227fcd8d693dd). sustainability.atmeta.com post as served on 2026-10-28; URL path dated 2024/12/03. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 7969d1b933817326c8a0ff1561b96fea45ae0004dc19ca367c115bceae13f7dd). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Meta (Meta Sustainability), “Accelerating the Next Wave of Nuclear to Power AI Innovation”, 2024-12-03.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (23 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 7969d1b933817326c8a0ff1561b96fea45ae0004dc19ca367c115bceae13f7dd; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

Accelerating the Next Wave of Nuclear to Power AI Innovation

Meta (Meta Sustainability) · 2024-12-03

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Source excerpt

“nuclear energy can help provide firm, baseload power to support the growth needs of the electric grids that power both our data centers”

Location in source paragraph beginning “Advancing the technologies that will build…”

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Meta (Meta Sustainability)
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 cfda5e886b4c49ce0ff9abe2b19168bbf3c4ee7470cedbf465b227fcd8d693dd). sustainability.atmeta.com post as served on 2026-10-28; URL path dated 2024/12/03. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 7969d1b933817326c8a0ff1561b96fea45ae0004dc19ca367c115bceae13f7dd). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Meta (Meta Sustainability), “Accelerating the Next Wave of Nuclear to Power AI Innovation”, 2024-12-03.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (23 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 7969d1b933817326c8a0ff1561b96fea45ae0004dc19ca367c115bceae13f7dd; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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Date. Date of the announcement, as the source gives it.

Record ID cpo-pw-meta-nuclear-rfp