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Google Secures 200 MW Fusion Power Deal and Boosts Funding for Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Google is using its purchasing power to accelerate CFS’s progress toward delivering carbon-free baseload energy.

A person works on the cryostat base of the fusion reactor inside the tokamak hall at Commonwealth Fusion Systems in Devens, Massachusetts, on April 10. A full-sized image of the tokamak is superimposed onto the wall.
Inside the Devens, Massachusetts, facility where Commonwealth Fusion Systems is making the powerful magnets that will be used in the nuclear fusion energy process. The company plans to build its first power plant in Virginia.
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Overview

  • On June 30, Google signed the industry’s first direct corporate power purchase agreement for 200 MW from CFS’s planned ARC fusion plant in Virginia, targeting grid delivery in the early 2030s.
  • The company also increased its investment in CFS to support development of its SPARC demonstration tokamak and the subsequent ARC reactor.
  • Michael Terrell, Google’s head of advanced energy, said the purchase is intended to send a market signal that fusion can advance from laboratory breakthroughs to commercial scale.
  • Fusion power could provide virtually limitless energy with four times the output per fuel unit of today’s nuclear plants and no long-lived radioactive waste, though major engineering hurdles remain.
  • The agreement aligns with Google’s strategy to secure reliable, carbon-free baseload power for its data centers as AI-driven energy demand grows.