United Kingdom, April 27 -- Meta has signed a deal which will allow the company to use solar energy collected in space to power data centres back on Earth.

The social media giant is teaming up with innovative start-up Overview Energy, which is developing a system to collect solar energy in outer space and transmit it back down to receivers on the planet below, to secure enough energy to keep the company's products going into the future as the increased use of AI and massive data centres continue to put pressure on the power grid in the US.

Nat Sahlstrom, ​vice president of energy and sustainability at Meta, said: "Space solar technology represents a transformative step forward by leveraging existing terrestrial infrastructure to d...