Trump bets on nuclear to power the AI century |
At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, where elites have blathered for years about net zero and energy transition to renewables, President Donald Trump had a message all his own. He tackled one of the defining questions of this decade: how to power both a 21st-century economy and an emerging age of artificial intelligence. His answer was blunt and unmistakable.
The United States, he said, is “going heavy into nuclear.” His administration will move to approve new energy projects within “three weeks,” expanding his long-standing promise of American energy dominance to meet the exponential power demands of the AI revolution.
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This was not a retreat from his oil-and-gas message but an evolution of it. By making nuclear power central to his Davos remarks, Trump signaled that he envisions the next economic frontier as a contest to generate the energy strong enough to sustain artificial intelligence on a global scale. The technologies shaping that future demand constant, enormous electricity, and Trump is positioning the U.S. to provide it.
He also acknowledged the cultural and political drag that sidelined nuclear power for decades. Perception has mattered more than........