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Who makes fusion for AI data centers

Fusion (long-dated PPAs)

Long-dated power purchase agreements with fusion developers, none of which have yet demonstrated commercial electricity generation.

Fusion PPAs are contracts for power from developers pursuing net-energy-gain fusion reactors, none of which currently generate commercial electricity — this is the furthest-dated and most speculative category in the layer, sitting conceptually alongside the SMR and advanced reactor bets in Layer 8.05 but with an even longer and less certain path to first delivered megawatt. Several of the largest AI operators have signed these agreements as long-horizon options on future firm power rather than as near-term supply. Because no fusion developer has a working commercial plant, these deals carry essentially all technology and schedule risk on the developer side, and none of it should be read as contracted revenue in the way a signed utility PPA (Layer 8.07) would be. An investor should treat named delivery dates as targets rather than commitments and focus on which developers have independently verified net-energy milestones rather than announced offtake volume alone.

AI delta: AI operators have signed long-dated fusion PPAs as options on future firm power, providing capital and demand signals to developers years before any commercial generation is proven.

Appears at:GW-class campus· cooling:any — Relevant only to the largest, longest-horizon gw_class power roadmaps given the multi-year to multi-decade timelines involved.

Companies on this part (9)

CompanyRoleOwnershipTickerPrice1dConfidenceNote
Commonwealth Fusionmanufacturerprivateinferred
General Fusionmanufacturerprivateinferred
Helionmanufacturerprivateinferred
Marvel Fusionmanufacturerprivateinferred
Pacific Fusionmanufacturerprivateinferred
TAEmanufacturerprivateinferred
Tokamak Energymanufacturerprivateinferred
Type Onemanufacturerprivateinferred
Zapmanufacturerprivateinferred

Who competes here

The same table read the other way: every company above competes for fusion sockets. Confidence tags matter — an inferred placement is a lead, not a confirmed rivalry.

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