📱☢️🔋🔌 Accelerating the Next Wave of Nuclear to Power AI Innovation

Today, Meta announced it will release a request for proposals (RFP) to identify nuclear energy developers to help us meet our AI innovation and sustainability objectives — targeting 1-4 gigawatts (GW) of new nuclear generation capacity in the U.S.; qualified developers can fill out the intake form to receive further guidance on the RFP process.

Advancing the technologies that will build the future of human connection — including the next wave of AI innovation — requires electric grids to expand and embrace new sources of reliable, clean and renewable energy. As new innovations bring impactful technological advancements across sectors and support economic growth, we believe that nuclear energy can help provide firm, baseload power to support the growth needs of the electric grids that power both our data centers (the physical infrastructure on which Meta’s platforms operate) as well as the communities around them.

Supporting the development of clean energy must continue to be a priority as electric grids expand to accommodate growing energy needs. At Meta, we believe nuclear energy will play a pivotal role in the transition to a cleaner, more reliable, and diversified electric grid. That is why today we announced that we will be releasing a request for proposals (RFP) to identify nuclear energy developers to help us meet our AI and sustainability objectives.

Our aim is to add 1-4 GW of new nuclear generation capacity in the U.S. to be delivered starting in the early 2030s. We are looking to identify developers that can help accelerate the availability of new nuclear generators and create sufficient scale to achieve material cost reductions by deploying multiple units, both to provide for Meta’s future energy needs and to advance broader industry decarbonization. We believe working with partners who will ultimately permit, design, engineer, finance, construct, and operate these power plants will ensure the long-term thinking necessary to accelerate nuclear technology.

https://sustainability.atmeta.com/blog/2024/12/03/accelerating-the-next-wave-of-nuclear-to-power-ai-innovation/

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🇨🇳❌🇺🇸 — US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said he believes some unidentified UAVs seen over New Jersey and New York are spy drones from Communist China and are being managed by Operatives & slepper cells of Chinese MSS

🇹🇹🇺🇸 - Trinidad and Tobago signs deal with America authorizing deployment of US forces in the island nations in case of conflict with Venezuela.

🇧🇷⁉️💰 — Brazil’s National Treasury announced, through an official statement, the postponement of its traditional public bond auction. This marks the first cancellation of a traditional bond auction since May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic

📝 “The purpose of this measure is to provide support to the public bond market, ensuring its proper functioning and that of related markets,” the Treasury stated.

⚠️ Previously, such cancellations occurred during events like the nationwide truck drivers’ strike in 2018 and the “Joesley Day” on May 17, 2017, when a recording revealed then-President Michel Temer (MDB) allegedly approving businessman Joesley Batista’s efforts to buy the silence of former House Speaker Eduardo Cunha (MDB-RJ).

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🇦🇷🏴❌🇻🇪🇻🇪 — The President of Argentina, Javier Milei, demanded the immediate release of the gendarme detained in Venezuela and stated that Nicolás Maduro "is a criminal dictator."

🇨🇺💥🇺🇸🇺🇸 — The communist regime in Cuba has expressed concern over the potential economic impacts of Donald Trump's return to the U.S. presidency

➡️ Speaking to the press, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated that a stricter U.S. stance under Trump could "worsen" the island's already dire economic situation, further exacerbated by the failed policies of dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel.

💬 "Of course, we are concerned about the effects this could have on our economy and, particularly, about the impact that greater U.S. hostility—which has proven to be very powerful and highly destructive—could have on the population's standard of living," said the Cuban official.

⁉️ Cossío accused Cuban exiles in Florida, who fled the island's persecution and economic crisis, of being the main advocates for a "catastrophic scenario for Cuba" under Trump's new presidency. However, he downplayed potential political consequences, asserting that the socialist regime would withstand external pressures.

"We know we will endure. Four years from now, the Trump administration will be over, and Cuba, socialist Cuba, will still be here," he declared.

🇺🇸⛓🇻🇪🇻🇪 — The son-in-law of Antonio Ledezma, former mayor of Caracas, was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison in the U.S. for money laundering linked to a $1.2 billion corruption scheme at PDVSA.

➡️ Fernando Vuteff, 53, was arrested in 2022 in Switzerland under a U.S. arrest warrant during a visit to retrieve a valuable watch from a safety deposit box at a bank in Zurich.

🇧🇷📈💰 — ⚠️ The Brazilian real depreciates against the commercial dollar, reaching R$ 6.30, a historical record since the currency's creation.

— R$ 6.31 💀

🇮🇷💸📉 | The Islamic Republic Iran’s currency hits an all-time low amid a worsening energy crisis.

Harsh winter weather and failing infrastructure have forced authorities to shut off highway lighting in Tehran at night to save electricity and cancell classes, as the country faces energy outages in its major cities

🇨🇳🇲🇽 Over the past 3 years, the number of Chinese companies in Mexican industrial sites has doubled.

The FT's latest digital report with a very useful graphic to help visualize where China's companies are investing.

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Lot of Russian navy movements to-from Mediterranean. Linked to or shaped by the situation in Syria (and Ukraine), but some may have been planned earlier.

Expecting major withdrawal of equipment from Tartus

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