"I came up with the idea," Trump said. "You people are brilliant. You have a lot of money. You can build your own electric generating plants."
"We needed more than double the energy currently in the country just to take care of the AI plants," Trump said."
"The progress they've made with nuclear is unbelievable," he said. "We're very much into the world of nuclear energy, and we can have it now at good prices and very, very safe."
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Donald Trump proposed that tech companies build their own nuclear power plants to fuel AI and pledged three-week federal approval timelines. He framed a straining U.S. electrical grid and rising AI-driven electricity demand as a central economic and national security risk for 2026 and asserted that more than double current energy would be needed to support AI facilities. The proposal departs from the multi-year Nuclear Regulatory Commission process and highlights safety improvements and potential deployment of small modular reactors as a feasible solution.
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