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Google announces power purchase agreement with Commonwealth Fusion
In its June 30 announcement of a new deal to purchase 200 MW from Commonwealth Fusion Systems' (CFS) first ARC fusion power plant planned for Virginia, Google called it “the largest direct corporate offtake agreement for fusion energy” ever. While Google made no mention of its plans for the power, its press release noted that clean energy is needed to reduce data center emissions.
L. R. Liegey, J. R. Tutt, T. A. Wilcox, G. W. McKinney (LANL)
Transactions | Volume 114 | Number 1 | June 2016 | Pages 660-663
