Like its Big Tech rivals, Meta (META) has been on a voracious spending spree lately to build data centers to power its A.I. ambition. But the Mark Zuckerberg-helmed company recently ran into an unusual problem: bees.

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Meta had reportedly been planning on establishing a new nuclear-powered data center in the U.S., but the company’s deal came to an end amid environmental and regulatory issues that included the discovery of a rare bee species on the project’s land, according to the Financial Times, which noted that Zuckerberg reportedly told staffers at an all-hands meeting last week that the bees would have complicated the proposed center. Meta did not respond to requests for comment from Observer.

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