Meta has signed a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy to keep open its Clinton Clean Energy Center nuclear facility in Illinois, a move that will help feed the tech giant’s enormous power needs in the artificial intelligence era.

The deal takes effect June 2027, right as Illinois’s Zero-Emission Credit Program (ZEC) expires and the energy center loses its ratepayer-funded financial assistance for being a carbon-free facility.

By keeping the plant in operation until at least 2047, the center will directly provide power to the local grid and support Meta’s clean energy goals of matching its energy use with solely renewable energy.

“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 a

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