Google will invest in Commonwealth Fusion Systems and buy 200 MW of electricity from its forthcoming power plant.

On June 30, Google announced an investment in nuclear fusion, which is a power source not yet successfully deployed globally. The tech giant revealed plans to purchase 200 megawatts of power from a proposed nuclear fusion plant in Chesterfield County,

In a first-of-its-kind agreement, Google will purchase electricity from a nuclear fusion power plant. But the technology remains years from commercial scale.