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Ali Hajimiri

Ali Hajimiri

Caltech professor; co-lead of Space Solar Power Project

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Meta books 1 gigawatt of space-based solar power for AI data centers

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Demonstrated wireless power transfer in orbit in 2023

Engineer Peter Glaser patented space solar power in 1973. For five decades it stayed theoretical; on April 27, 2026, Meta signed a 1-gigawatt capacity reservation with Virginia startup Overview Energy and became the first announced commercial buyer of orbital electricity.

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