Meta to Buy Nuclear Power from Illinois Constellation Plant

June 4, 2025--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Constellation Energy (Baltimore, Maryland) is reaping the rewards of a clean energy push for data centers from some of the biggest names in Big Tech. The company's most recent agreement comes in the form of a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Meta Platforms Incorporated (Menlo Park, California) for the output from the Clinton Clean Energy Center, a nuclear power plant in Illinois. The Clinton Clean Energy Center has a single 1.21-gigawatt (GW) reactor. The 20-year agreement deal will help keep the plant operational into 2047.