Environmental and regulatory obstacles led to the cancellation of an AI bit farm, report claims

A rare bee species reportedly threw a wrench in Meta's plans for an AI data center.Meta planned to build a facility to run on nuclear power, but the

An anonymous reader shares a report: Plans by Mark Zuckerberg's Meta to build an AI data centre in the US that runs on nuclear power were thwarted in part because a rare species of bee was discovered on land earmarked for the project, according to people familiar with the matter. Zuckerberg had p...