Advanced Reactors and Operating Plants: Meta's Nuclear Energy Agreements of January 2026

On January 9, 2026, Meta published a release on agreements with three companies, made after what it calls its nuclear RFP process. The release says the projects are expected to support "up to 6.6 GW of new and existing clean energy by 2035." It names the three companies. This article calls them by what they do. Parts of the release follow, not the whole.

Reactors Still to Be Developed

With one developer of advanced reactors, the agreement "will provide funding that supports the development of two new" units "capable of generating up to 690 MW of firm power with delivery as early as 2032." The same agreement gives Meta rights to energy from up to six other units, "capable of producing 2.1 GW and targeted for delivery by 2035."

With a second developer, the release describes a campus for new nuclear energy in Pike County, Ohio. It "may come online as early as 2030," and it is "poised to add up to 1.2 GW of clean baseload power directly into the PJM market." The release says the agreements give both developers "greater business certainty."

Plants Already Operating

With the third company, whose operating nuclear plants the release names, Meta says it will buy, through 20-year agreements, more than 2.1 GW of energy from two operating plants in Ohio. It will also buy the energy from expansions, which the release calls uprates, at those two plants and a third in Pennsylvania. The new uprate capacity, "totaling 433 MW, is expected to come online in the early 2030s."

All three plants, the release says, will continue to deliver power into the PJM grid region. Meta's commitments, in its words, "ensure that these facilities can continue providing reliable power to the regional electricity grid."

The release sets energy from plants already operating beside energy from reactors still to be developed, whose dates read "as early as" and "targeted." To a lender those are two different kinds of risk.

Planning and Paying for Power

The release also says how Meta plans for power. It works with utilities and power providers to plan for and meet its energy needs years before its data centers begin operating. And it pays the full costs for the energy its data centers use, "so consumers don't bear these expenses."