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Is the US headed toward an electricity crisis of its… | Canary Media

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Trump administration policies and AI needs are fueling a growing mismatch between energy supply and demand. That’s a huge problem, but there may be a way…

Most intriguingly, Trump Media & Technology, the parent company of Trump’s own social media platform, Truth Social, announced in December that it would pursue a merger with nuclear fusion startup TAE Technologies. TAE hopes to generate clean baseload power in the early 2030s, though scientists consider cracking commercially viable fusion to be more technically challenging than running a niche and unprofitable social media platform. Meanwhile, tech giants’ ambitions for AI computing construction have ballooned. Thomas said that while 20 to 30 gigawatts of data centers are operating today,…

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