Pacific Fusion breaks ground on demonstration facility in Albuquerque

Pacific Fusion/Demonstration System

Pacific Fusion broke ground on a $1 billion research and manufacturing campus in Albuquerque's Mesa del Sol, the site where it will build its demonstration fusion facility. The facility is designed to prove net facility gain—producing more energy from fusion reactions than the system consumes—by 2030, a critical milestone for commercial fusion power.

• Facility groundbreaking on August 24, 2026 at Mesa del Sol, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• 225,000-square-foot research and manufacturing campus with $1 billion investment
• Demonstration system will use 156 pulser modules to compress deuterium-tritium fuel
• Target: achieve net facility gain by 2030; commercial plants in mid-2030s
• Accompanying build center in Los Lunas will manufacture system components