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With Google Deal, Fusion Energy Inches Closer to Reality
In news of the future, Google is buying a boatload of fusion energy. The only problem is that its supplier lacks a power plant, has produced no energy to date, and may never do so on commercially viable terms. Even so, wish them well: Few technologies could have a more profound effect on the future of global energy.
Last month, Alphabet Inc.'s Google agreed to buy 200 megawatts of energy from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a spinoff from a lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that plans to build a fusion plant in Virginia. (Google is also an investor.) The goal is to start supplying power to the grid, and thus to Google's data centers, by the early 2030s.
