Private donors pledge 860M EUR for CERN's Future Circular Collider
4mon 17d ago by mander.xyz/u/BB84 in physics@mander.xyz from home.cern
It's not guaranteed that the FCC will be built yet. But if CERN decides to build it, then these people will chip in 860M EUR.
The people in question are "a group of friends of CERN, including the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation, and the entrepreneurs John Elkann and Xavier Niel".