The U.S. government is shelling out a whopping $2.7 billion to three companies in an effort to strengthen domestic uranium enrichment, amid surging electricity demand from AI data centers.
The Department of Energy announced on Monday that it will award $900 million each to American Centrifuge Operating and Orano Federal Services, as well as General Matter, a nuclear startup backed by billionaire investor Peter Thiel.
The funding will be distributed through task orders over the next 10 years, under what the department described as a “strict milestone approach.”
I thought he made that kind of money as spare change on the lecture circuit when he tells people he knows about the anti-christ.
Or when he tells them public education is a waste of time, and they should just “do what they’re good at” as if they inherently know what that is.