Pacific Fusion announces expansion to New Mexico with new Research and Manufacturing Campus

Today, we’re excited to announce that Pacific Fusion has selected Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the site for our first Research and Manufacturing Campus, a major step toward building a commercial fusion system. Our headquarters, including our three Research and Development Campuses, will remain in California. 

Expanding our footprint, maintaining our roots

Our New Mexico Research and Manufacturing Campus will house our Demonstration System, designed to achieve net facility gain—more fusion energy out than all the energy stored in the system—by 2030. As we shared in our recent technical publications:

• The Demonstration System is designed to deliver 100-fold higher facility gain at 10-fold lower cost than the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a 1,000-fold leap in practical fusion performance.
• The Demonstration System also builds on decades of scientific and engineering advances at the Z Facility at Sandia National Laboratories, our research partner and soon-to-be neighbor.

Our Albuquerque campus will build on New Mexico’s legacy in applied physics, including decades of foundational research at Sandia National Laboratories. The state’s expertise in advanced energy technologies, workforce that aligns with our future hiring needs, and capital-efficient environment for large projects make it a natural choice for Pacific Fusion’s strategic expansion.

In parallel, we’ve been continuing to expand our California R&D headquarters. Over the last year we’ve tripled our California-based team to over 110 employees and also significantly expanded our Bay Area footprint. Our Research and Development Campuses now include three facilities: 

• Fremont Headquarters and Test Center, in which we build, test, and optimize first-of-a-kind fusion system components,
• San Leandro Build Center, a 135,000 square-foot facility for Manufacturing R&D, where our team will be ramping up production of pulser modules, the key building block of our system, and
• Livermore Collaboratory, where our team pushes the frontiers of plasma simulation and fusion target design, and works closely with our research partners at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Looking ahead

Pacific Fusion is on a practical path to deliver affordable fusion energy, following 50 years of applied innovation at U.S. National Laboratories in New Mexico and California. As we accelerate innovation with our California team — which will continue to draw from Silicon Valley’s unique talent base and capital ecosystem — we will build our Demonstration System in New Mexico and achieve net facility gain, unlocking fusion energy.

We are grateful for our ongoing partnership with New Mexico state and local leadership, including Governor Lujan Grisham and her team, the City of Albuquerque, and key legislators from both parties. We also look forward to deepening our collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories to drive innovation on the next generation of pulsed power systems. Together, we will build on New Mexico’s legacy of applied physics leadership to advance a fusion-powered future.  

These developments keep us on track to deliver the first commercial fusion system in the United States by the mid-2030s and then move quickly to scaled deployment of affordable fusion energy.

Want to build with us? We are hiring in both states.