Meta had to pull the plug on a nuclear-powered data center project after a rare bee species was discovered on the land where it was going to be built, according to the Financial Times.

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.