US EditionPrivate Donors Pledge $1B for CERN's Future Collider
Tech billionaires and foundations have pledged $1 billion in private funding to help build CERN’s Future Circular Collider, a project projected to cost $17 billion and succeed the LHC.
- On Thursday, CERN announced private donors including the Breakthrough Prize Foundation pledged $1 billion toward the Future Circular Collider construction.
- With the LHC running through around 2040, CERN is considering the FCC, a 91 km ring about 200 metres deep, to explore dark matter and dark energy.
- Supporters, including Eric Schmidt, say the FCC could benefit society from medicine to computing to sustainable energy, while S. Pete Worden described it as `the most powerful scientific instrument in history`.
- Member states must still green-light the FCC before CERN's 2028 decision, which is estimated to cost around $1 billion and awaits approval from CERN's 25 member states.
- Given the LHC's track record, researchers argue a larger collider could build on the Higgs boson discovery that won Peter Higgs and Francois Englert the 2013 Nobel Prize, probing beyond ordinary matter's five percent.
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Tech Billionaires Back $1 Billion for CERN's Next Physics Breakthrough
(Bloomberg) — Some of the wealthiest individuals in technology including Eric Schmidt and France’s Xavier Niel have pledged as much as €860 million ($1 billion) to CERN to fund a proposed successor to the Large Hadron Collider, as the storied research institute turns to private backers for the first time for future breakthroughs.
For the first time, the Cern Research Centre accepts private money for a major project: the world's most powerful particle accelerator. However, a large amount is still missing until the total amount required.
From CERN (CH) Accelerating Science Knowledge Transfer : “Private donors pledge €860 million for CERN’s Future Circular Collider”
From CERN (CH) Accelerating Science Knowledge Transfer 18 December, 2025 For the first time in CERN’s history, private donors (individuals and philanthropic foundations) have agreed to support a CERN flagship research project. Recently, a group of friends of CERN, including the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation, and the…
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