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Meta signs for a gigawatt of power beamed from orbit

development2026-04-27

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Meta signed for up to a gigawatt of space solar beamed from satellites to data centers below, while nuclear startup X-energy raised $1 billion in a listing that popped 25% and a geothermal startup filed at roughly $3 billion.

Reported metric: 1 GW

Reporting date: 2026-04-27 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to April 27, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A wartime energy shock pushes forty nations toward nuclear power

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Welcome to April 27, 2026

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Meta signs for a gigawatt of power beamed from orbit
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-04-27
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-04-27-space-solar-beamed-to-datacenters
Claim: Meta signed for up to a gigawatt of space solar beamed from satellites to data centers below, while nuclear startup X-energy raised $1 billion in a listing that popped 25% and a geothermal startup filed at roughly $3 billion.
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- Welcome to April 27, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-april-27-2026
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