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Google has agreed to acquire electricity from a planned merger power plant in the second electricity contract only in the second electricity contract, which is signed in the difficult merging energy sector.
The technology giant has undertaken to buy 200 megawatts of electricity from Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ planned power plant in Virgina as part of a multi -year electricity contract contract, the companies announced in a statement on Monday.
CFS with the headquarters of the US headquarters, including investors, including Google in 2021, increased a record of USD 1.8 billion, hopes that the proposed 400 MW system will be the first fusion power plant that will be connected to the network.
Scientists have tried to produce clean energy since the 1950s, but in decades of experiments, no group could produce more energy from a merger reaction than the system itself.
CFS is probably the most progressive of a few dozen privately owned fusion companies that perfect the technology and develop a commercially sustainable machine.
It is currently building a demonstration system in Massachusetts to switch on it in 2027. It hopes that the system that Google delivers will be finished until the early 2030s.
“(That is) not just a work with a date that invented, or a thin document,” said the CFS managing director and co-founder Bob Mumgaard to the Financial Times and referred to the electricity contract contract. “This is a full PPA,” he said, adding: “We do it and you are obliged to buy it.”
The deal takes place as a technology company, including Google, which belongs to alphabet to block access to electricity in order to provide the massive roles of the data centers required for the power supply of AI systems.
Microsoft signed a electricity contract contract with Sam Altman’s Fusion Company in 2023 HelionTo compensate for electricity from a proposed 50 MW device that would make the companies online until 2028 at that time.
The Promise the merger is particularly tempting because the reaction does not produce long -lasting core drops, does not spend carbon and a small cup of the hydrogen isotopes used in the reaction has the potential to supply a house for hundreds of years. But skeptics continue to argue that the commercial fusion power remains away for decades.
Mumgaard said the support of Google was a signal for the investment community and the supply chain that the commercial merger performance was increasingly likely, and added that the business would help the company increase financing.
Google has agreed to increase its investment in CFS in the next round of financing and also signed an option in the future to take off other CFS power plants, according to the companies.
“We are pleased to make this long -term bet on a technology with transformative potential to satisfy the future energy requirement of the world,” said Michael Terrell, head of Google’s advanced energy, in a statement.
