Bill Gate poses for a portrait at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., June 13, 2024. Ben de la Cruz/NPR
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Artificial intelligence may come for our jobs one day, but before that happens, the data centers it relies on are going to need a lot of electricity.
So how do we power them and millions of U.S. homes and businesses without generating more climate-warming gases?
Microsoft founder, billionaire philanthropist and investor Bill Gates is betting that nuclear power is key to meeting that need — and he’s digging into his own pockets to try and make it