Meta goes looking for power in space

Power bills, but make it sci-fi

Meta is partnering with Overview Energy to explore a pretty wild idea: harvesting solar energy in space and beaming it back down to Earth for data centers. Because apparently the answer to “how do we power all these servers?” is now “let’s build a sun-powered relay race in orbit.”

Why Meta cares

The company says the setup could give it early access to as much as 1 gigawatt of capacity from Overview’s system. That matters because data centers are turning into electricity black holes, and Meta is trying to lock up energy sources before power constraints become the next bottleneck for AI growth.

The timeline is long, but the signal is immediate

The companies want to show the system in orbit by 2028, with commercial power delivery expected in 2030. So no, this won’t light up next quarter’s earnings deck. But it does tell you where Meta thinks the energy arms race is going: not just solar farms and nuclear deals, but anything that can keep the servers humming 24/7.

Big picture

This is part tech moonshot, part utility bill survival strategy. If the project works, Meta gets a headline-grabbing edge in clean power. If not, it still reinforces the bigger theme: AI infrastructure is forcing mega-cap tech to act a lot more like energy companies than software companies.