
Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space
The race to keep massive AI workloads powered around the clock has led Meta to sign a capacity reservation agreement with Overview Energy, a startup developing spacecraft that collect solar energy in space and convert it to near-infrared light beamed at large terrestrial solar farms. The deal — for up to 1 gigawatt of capacity — is a notable early commercial commitment for a technology that, if it scales, could…