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Although glial cells are essential for maintaining neural homeostasis under stress, how specific glial subtypes remodel metabolism to promote hypoxia tolerance remains poorly understood. Here, we identify a Notch-dependent lipid metabolic program in excitatory amino acid transporter 1 (Eaat1)-positive glia that supports hypoxia adaptation in the developing\n                  <jats:italic>Drosophila<\/jats:italic>\n                  larval brain. Using stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy combined with deuterium-labeled metabolic probes, we visualized substrate-specific metabolic activity in vivo at subcellular resolution. In control, non-adapted flies, we found that acute hypoxia markedly increased de novo lipogenesis in Eaat1-positive glia. In flies adapted to chronic hypoxia, Eaat1-positive glia exhibited a pre-programmed metabolic shift, characterized by reduced glucose-derived lipogenesis and enhanced acetate-derived lipid synthesis. Constitutive activation of Notch signaling in Eaat1-positive glia was sufficient to phenocopy this acetate-favored lipogenic state, suggesting that Notch promotes metabolic plasticity under oxygen-limited conditions. To define the transcriptional programs associated with this response, we performed single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) of the developing\n                  <jats:italic>Drosophila<\/jats:italic>\n                  central nervous system and mapped Eaat-1expressing cell populations across hypoxia and Notch activation. Notch activation reshaped hypoxia-associated transcriptional responses and counteracted metabolic suppression caused by low oxygen. Together, our findings identify Eaat1-positiveglia as a metabolically adaptive glial population and reveal a conserved Notch-regulated mechanism that rewires lipid metabolism to support hypoxia tolerance in the developing brain. 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