Google Invests in $468-Million Funding Round for German Fusion Group

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Proxima said it has secured more than €650 million ($740 million), including €95 million ($108 million) in public grants, since its founding in 2023. The company said the funding announced Tuesday exceeded its target of matching Bavaria's commitment for a €400 million ($457 million) public funding contribution to the company's strategy. Proxima said the financing will put its focus will be on completion of the Stellarator Model Coil, expansion of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cable and magnet production, and continued development of the engineering and manufacturing systems required for stellarators. Proxima said it will hire workers across engineering, manufacturing and operations to accelerate progress.

To learn more about the companies leading the global race to commercialize fusion energy, read " Research Brings Results in Search for 'Holy Grail' of Clean Energy " in POWER's February 2026 Special Report on groundbreaking power generation technologies.

Fusion is the process of combining two atoms to form a single atom to release energy. It has long been referred to as the "Holy Grail" of clean and abundant energy production, as it has the potential to produce power from hydrogen, the most common element in the universe. It also produces no carbon emissions and does not have the highly radioactive output of nuclear fission processes. The technology has proven difficult, though, as researchers work to get more energy out of a fusion reaction that it takes to create the reaction.Proxima has said it is targeting completion of Alpha in the early 2030s, which would support the company's plan for its first commercial stellarator fusion power plant, called Stellaris, later that decade.Google has said its support of Proxima is among a series of fusion-focused investments by the company as it looks for ways to power its energy-intensive data center and AI infrastructure operations. The company has said it has a goal to run its operations totally on carbon-free energy, while acknowledging those climate goals have become more difficult to attain as growth of its AI infrastructure outpaces decarbonization of the power grid.Other investors in the latest funding for Proxima include KfW Capital, SPRIND, and Burda Principal Investments. Returing investors include Plural, UVC Partners, Balderton, Cherry Ventures, DST Global Partners, Brevan Howard Macro Venture, Lightspeed, DTCF, redalpine, Leitmotif, Elaia, CDP Venture Capital, Bayern Kapital, and the EIC Fund. — Darrell Proctor is a senior editor for POWER.

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