Nuclear-power stocks fell after regulators voted against a deal between Amazon and Talen Energy.The deal would permit a Talen nuclear plant to provide an Amazon data center with extra power.Nuclear stocks have surged this year as AI data centers boost energy demand.

Plans by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to build an AI data center 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.

Tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s company Meta saw its plans to construct a new AI data center get held up because of a special species of bees. According to a report, a rare and endangered species of bees was seen on the land at the site where Meta wants to build its mega nuclear-powered data center,