Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has raised more than $1.8 billion, the largest private investment in the nuclear fusion industry as more investors pour money into energy projects that claim limitless energy with no or minimal wastage. Founded in 2017, CFS is based out of Cambridge, MA, and plans to deploy the capital to “construct, commission, and operate SPARC, the world’s first commercially relevant net energy fusion machine,” according to a company press release, and thereby, commercialize fusion energy. Besides SPARC, CFS will begin working on a nuclear fusion power plant using the funds. The latest round was led by Tiger Global Management and other investors include Bill Gates, Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures, Soros Fund Management, the Jameel Family, Italian energy company Eni, Temasek, and a variety of other partners keen on seeing the viability of the technology and the potential it holds to change global energy consumption. This year, alongside …