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Demis Hassabis· 2025-06-30 14:21
RT Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai)We’re making a long-term bet on fusion energy through our partnership with @CFS_energy. This includes the largest direct corporate purchase for fusion energy, and a new investment to help CFS prove out their promising technology and move it closer to commercialization. ...
Google inks its first fusion power deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems
TechCrunch· 2025-06-30 13:00
Fusion power got another boost on Monday as Google announced it will buy half the output of Commonwealth Fusion System's first commercial power plant. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) will send Google 200 megawatts of electricity from its Arc power plant, which is expected to come online in the early 2030s. Meanwhile, Google is sending CFS a check as part of a new, unannounced funding round. The new round will be "comparable" to the previous one, CFS co-founder and CEO Bob Mumgaard said. CFS's most recent ...
Powering the Future with Fusion
Y Combinator· 2025-06-09 21:26
These massive data centers are the beating heart of the AI boom that's reshaping our world and they're hungry for more electricity. That's one of the reasons that for the first time in a decade, demand for energy in America is spiking. To keep up, we're burning more and more fossil fuel and fast.But there's another path, a clean, safe, virtually limitless source of power. Fusion energy. Fusion is the way the sun works.Only here on Earth, we've actually struggled to be able to do it in a commercializable, co ...
Fusion Energy Will Power the AI Boom
Y Combinator· 2025-06-06 14:00
These massive data centers are the beating heart of the AI boom that's reshaping our world and they're hungry for more electricity. That's one of the reasons that for the first time in a decade, demand for energy in America is spiking. To keep up, we're burning more and more fossil fuel and fast.But there's another path, a clean, safe, virtually limitless source of power. Fusion energy. Fusion is the way the sun works.Only here on Earth, we've actually struggled to be able to do it in a commercializable, co ...
Syntec Optics (Nasdaq: OPTX) Enabling Optics for Fusion Energy, Enters New End-Market
Globenewswire· 2025-05-20 12:31
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, May 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Syntec Optics Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTX), a leading provider of technology products to defense, biomedical, communications, and consumer industry leaders, today announced it has secured orders to provide optics for commercial fusion energy. In 2023-24, Syntec Optics entered communications by providing optics used in LEO satellites for space and then data centers for Artificial Intelligence deployment. It has now been part of its strategy to seek energ ...