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They Want to Make a Miniature Sun: From Sam Altman to Jeff Bezos, Why AI Giants Invest Billions in Nuclear Fusion (While There Is Not a Single Functional Power Plant)
Faced with the colossal energy needs of artificial intelligence, Silicon Valley giants are investing heavily in nuclear fusion. If companies like OpenAI, Google or Microsoft enter into agreements with start-ups hoping for energy supply...
Faced with the colossal energy needs of artificial intelligence, Silicon Valley giants are investing heavily in nuclear fusion. If companies like OpenAI, Google or Microsoft enter into agreements with start-ups hoping for energy supply...
Sam Altman wants to create a miniature sun in a box. OpenAI's boss hopes that his company will be among the first to benefit from nuclear fusion, one of the most ambitious innovations of the century. Unlike the fission of heavy atoms, fusion unites light particles to reproduce the reaction of stars on Earth. But no functional power plant [...] Source