Meta has announced plans to invest $10 billion in a new data center in Louisiana. This center will be the largest in the world among the company’s facilities and will be designed to process large amounts of data required to support digital infrastructure, including artificial intelligence workflows. This was reported by Reuters.

Construction of the new data center will begin in December. Meta predicts that work on the facility will last until 2030. After that, the company will also need to address the high demand for electricity.

Before the announcement of the new data center , Meta said it was seeking proposals from nuclear power producers to meet its goals in artificial intelligence and environmental protection. The company plans to add up to 4 gigawatts of new capacity in the early 2030s. Earlier, Amazon and Google announced similar plans.

Despite the company’s ambitions in the field of nuclear power, it will be difficult to meet all electricity demand solely with nuclear energy. The new data center in Louisiana will be powered by renewable energy supplied by the utility company Entergy.

Earlier it was reported that tech giants such as Google and Microsoft consumed 24 TWh of electricity in 2023. This exceeds the electricity consumption of more than 100 countries.