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.”
That’s a MUCH better us of MY Taxpayer Dollars then FEEDING STARVING AMERICAN CHILDREN!
Don’t forget funding things like CPB, too.
So glad we can enrich the weird end-times freak Peter Thiel. The fan of Curtis Yarvin and The Sovereign Individual.
One step at a time. Maybe we stop using tax dollars to cause child starvation before we ease into preventing child starvation.
Good news, we can do both!
… But we won’t