Here's how fusion energy could power your home or an AI data center

The artificial intelligence boom has sent energy demand soaring. Some of the supercomputers sucking up all that power are helping to find new energy sources. Fusion energy is the process of forcing two hydrogen atoms to combine and form one helium atom, which releases huge amounts of power. It uses a stellarator, a type of fusion reactor invented in the 1950's that produces heat. Until now, the technology was too difficult to deploy commercially. But this old concept has brand new potential. Type One Energy, a startup based in Tennessee, claims to have proven that fusion energy will be able to produce electricity in the next decade. "It's going to create heat that's going to boil water, make steam, run a turbine and put fusion electrons on the power grid on a 24/7 reliable basis," said Type One Christofer Mowry. AI has made it all practical. "Things have really accelerated remarkably over the last five or six years," Mowry said. "The supercomputers have allowed industry, academia ... Read full article.