The deals will bring 6.6 gigawatts of power online in the coming decade to power AI data centers. Meta has three new agreements to purchase nuclear power for its AI infrastructure as well as the, a 1-gigawatt data center being built in Ohio. The social media giant is partnering with power companies Vistra, TerraPower and Oklo to deliver an expected 6.6 gigawatts of generation to its projects by 2035. The company's agreement with TerraPower will fund the development of two new reactors capable of delivering up to 690 megawatts of power as early as 2032. The deal also gives Meta rights to energy from six other reactors that could deliver an additional 2.1 gigawatts by 2035.

Tatum, Texas might not seem like the most obvious place for a revolution in artificial intelligence (AI), but in October of 2020, that's exactly what happened. That was when Wayne Brown, the operations manager at the Vistra-owned Martin Lake Power Plant, built and deployed a heat rate optimizer (HRO). Vistra Corp. is the largest competitive power producer in the United States and operates power plants in 12 states with a capacity of more than 39,000 megawatts of electricity--enough to power nearly 20 million homes. Vistra has committed to reducing emissions by 60 percent by 2030 (against a 2010 baseline) and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. To achieve its goals, the business is increasing efficiency in all its power plants and transforming its generation fleet by retiring coal plants and investing in solar- and battery-energy storage, which includes the world's largest grid-scale battery energy-storage facility.

As the superintendent of Vistra Corp's Luminant Martin Lake Power Plant, Wayne Brown is an expert in power generation. Vistra is the largest competitive power producer in the United States, operating power plants in 12 states and producing more than 39 gigawatts of electricity--enough to power nearly 20 million homes. The company has been on a journey to drive operational excellence across its generation portfolio. Launched in 2016, its Operational Performance Initiative has driven a step-change improvement in the efficiency of its assets, generating hundreds of millions in incremental EBITDA along the way. This article is a collaborative effort by Duane S. Boning, Vijay D'Silva, Pete Kimball, Bruce Lawler, Retsef Levi, and Ingrid Millan, representing views from McKinsey's Operations Practice and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Machine Intelligence for Manufacturing and Operations program. To maintain and improve its position, Vistra is continually looking for the tools, technologies, and approaches that will help it achieve the next level of performance. Most recently, the company has turned to digital and analytics, including machine intelligence (MI). It measures how much electricity is generated for each ton of fuel consumed by the plant.

Tatum, Texas might not seem like the most obvious place for a revolution in artificial intelligence (AI), but in October of 2020, that's exactly what happened. That was when Wayne Brown, the operations manager at the Vistra-owned Martin Lake Power Plant, built and deployed a heat rate optimizer (HRO). Vistra Corp. is the largest competitive power producer in the United States and operates power plants in 12 states with a capacity of more than 39,000 megawatts of electricity--enough to power nearly 20 million homes. Vistra has committed to reducing emissions by 60 percent by 2030 (against a 2010 baseline) and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. To achieve its goals, the business is increasing efficiency in all its power plants and transforming its generation fleet by retiring coal plants and investing in solar- and battery-energy storage, which includes the world's largest grid-scale battery energy-storage facility.