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Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company to power AI (infosec.pub)

submitted 17 hours ago by Infrapink@thebrainbin.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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United States President Donald Trump is getting into the fusion power business through a $6bn merger of his social media firm and Google-backed TAE Technologies, just days after industry representatives urged federal funding.
The all-stock deal, announced on Thursday, is an ambitious bet on the power boom spurred by artificial intelligence (AI) data centres and adds to the Trump family’s growing roster of diverse ventures from cryptocurrency to real estate holdings and mobile services.

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[–] Lucky_Acid@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

So what happened to Coal and Drill, Baby, Drill?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Fusion is guaranteed not to interfere with that.

[–] chisel@piefed.social 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Hey now, fusion will be ready around the same time AGI is achieved, so it is a brilliant investment to tie the two together.

[–] leds@feddit.dk 2 points 2 hours ago

Think of all the synergies, have LLM design fusion reactor to power itself!

(/s?)

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I don't even doubt somebody will achieve net-energy positive fusion in the near future (not those startups, though). But that is still not enough to change anything in the energy market.

The first many decades of fusion will be ridiculously expensive.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

It doesn’t have to change anything in the energy market. All it needs is for someone in government to approve massive federal funding, then: PROFIT. I’m sure there’s no connection and no way anyone in Trump Media knows what will be approved by the Trump administrative