WASHINGTON — Overview Energy, a startup developing space-based solar power systems, announced an agreement to provide energy for data centers operated by Meta.
The companies announced April 27 an agreement under which Overview will transmit up to one gigawatt of power that will be used by Meta data centers when other sources of energy, like terrestrial solar power, are unavailable.
Overview emerged from stealth last December, announcing that it had demonstrated technologies to collect solar power in space and transmit it to Earth through infrared lasers. Those lasers would send power to terrestrial solar farms, allowing them to generate power when they would otherwise be idle, such as at night. Overview plans an in-space demo of its technology in 2028, with commercial service to begin as