New Delhi, Jan. 9 -- Meta Platforms Inc. has signed a series of electricity contracts for its data centres, making it the most significant corporate purchaser of nuclear energy in American history, the company said in a release on Friday, 9 January.

The technology giant informed that it will buy electricity from three existing Vistra Corp. plants and support several small reactors that Sam Altman-backed Oklo Inc. and Bill Gates-backed TerraPower LLC plan to build over the next decade. These agreements follow a separate deal in June to source energy from a Constellation Energy Corp. nuclear site.

"Our agreements with Vistra, TerraPower, Oklo, and Constellation make Meta one of the most significant corporate purchasers of nuclear energy i...