Google agrees that the planned nuclear fusion plant will receive power

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Google agreed to receive energy from a fusion power plant scheduled for 2030, and the second electric power connection to be signed in the naskent fusion energy sector of the teenagers.

The technology giant undertook to undertake a 200-megawatts of power plant from the union fusion systems in Virginia under a multi-year energy purchase agreement.

The US headquarters, which raised $ 1.8 billion records from investors, including Google in 2021, hopes that the proposed 400 MW rig will be the first to the grid.

Scientists have tried to produce clean energy by connecting the atoms since the 1950s, but they could not give more energy than a fusion reaction that no group consumed in decades.

CFS is undoubtedly the most progressive of the most advanced fusion company, which competes to perfect technology and develop a commercially favorable machine.

It is currently aimed at opening in 2027, the demonstration plant is building in Massachusetts. He hopes that Google will be ready until early in the 2030s.

“(This) is not only a period of time or a bit of a small document,” CFS is a matter of time, “CFS CEO Bob Mumgaard reports referring to the energy purchase agreement. “It’s a full PPA,” he added: “We give strength and have to get it.”

The transaction comes as technological companies that are the company, which is a mass roll, which is a mass roll, which is required for the information centers required for Google, AI systems.

Microsoft, in 2023, SAM Altman signed an energy purchase contract with Fusion Company in 2023 VasyonIt agrees to say that the companies will be online by 2028 of electricity from the 50MW rig.

This Fusion Because the reaction does not create a long-lasting nuclear pasture, a small cup of carbon or a small cup, a small cup used in the reaction, has the power potential of a house for hundreds of years. However, the skeptics continue to claim that the power of commercial fusion has been in decades.

MumGaard said that the gang from Google was a signal to the investment community and the supply chain and added that the trade fusion strength increases increasingly and the contract will help the company finance the company.

Google has agreed to increase investment in CFS in the next financing phase and has signed an option to make other CFS power plants from other CFS power plants in the future.

“We are pleased to see a technology that has a transformative potential to get acquainted with the future energy needs,” Michael Terrell, Google’s advanced energy head.

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