Orbital Power: Meta plans to harvest solar energy in space to run its data centres

Open Magazine · last updated April 30, 2026 – 7:15 AM

One of the biggest challenges that came with AI is how to meet its insatiable appetite for energy. Its data centres require enormous amounts of energy, and this demand is expected to rise exponentially. Meta is now looking to space for an answer. The social media giant announced that it has signed agreements with two energy startups—Overview Energy and Noon Energy— that would potentially allow it to tap into solar energy beamed directly from space to its data centres.

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