Meta adds nuclear power on top of Oklahoma wind energy

Just four months after Meta announced an agreement to acquire electrical power from an Oklahoma wind farm as part of its data center growth across the nation, the company signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with the operator of an Illinois nuclear power plant.

Constellation’s Clinton nuclear plant will offer 1,121 megawatts of emissions-free nuclear energy and it means another two decades of operation for the plant.

This deal will expand Clinton’s clean energy output by 30 megawatts through plant uprates; preserve 1,100 high-paying local jobs; deliver $13.5 million in annual tax revenue; and add $1 million in charitable giving to local nonprofits over five years.

Constellation Energy Corporation , a Fortune 200 company headquartered in Baltimore, operates the nation’s largest nuclear fleet.

Meta is on a binge of data center construction and after making the deal with Enel North America for wind energy from the Rockhaven wind farm in Murray and Carter counties in southern Oklahoma, the company announced plans to build a center in Louisiana and power it with a 10,000-acre solar farm, three natural gas turbines and 100 miles of new transmission lines.