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Meta Secures Up to 1 GW Space-Solar Power, Storage Deal

4/28/2026

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Meta Secures Space-Solar

Meta of the United States signed a deal with Overview Energy to reserve up to 1 GW of space-solar power.
Overview will demonstrate its solar-satellite system in January 2028 and aim for commercial delivery by 2030.
The satellites will beam low-intensity near-infrared light to solar farms, enabling 24-hour generation.
Meta also reserved up to 1 GW/100 GWh of ultra-long-duration storage from Noon Energy, with a 25 MW/2.5 GWh pilot due 2028.

Summary

Meta Fuels AI

Meta is backing ten new gas-fired plants for its largest AI data-center campus in rural Louisiana.
Meta is allocating hundreds of billions of dollars to secure energy, infrastructure and computing capacity for AI.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have publicly discussed placing computing facilities in orbit, signaling interest in space-based solutions.

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Historical Context

In the late 1970s the DOE and NASA began a $50 million Solar Power Satellite study to explore megawatt-scale space solar stations. NASA’s 1999 SERT program and Caltech’s 2023 MAPLE demo, which beamed modest power to Earth, kept the idea alive. Meta’s 2024 deal with Overview Energy and Elon Musk’s orbital-computing venture now aim for gigawatt-scale beaming by the 2030s.

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Meta Secures Space-Solar

Meta of the United States signed a deal with Overview Energy to reserve up to 1 GW of space-solar power.
Overview will demonstrate its solar-satellite system in January 2028 and aim for commercial delivery by 2030.
The satellites will beam low-intensity near-infrared light to solar farms, enabling 24-hour generation.
Meta also reserved up to 1 GW/100 GWh of ultra-long-duration storage from Noon Energy, with a 25 MW/2.5 GWh pilot due 2028.

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