Roundtables: Why AI Companies Are Betting on Next-Gen Nuclear

AI is driving unprecedented investment for massive data centers and an energy supply that can support its huge computational appetite. One potential source of electricity for these facilities is next-generation nuclear power plants, which could be cheaper to construct and safer to operate than their predecessors. Watch a discussion with our editors and reporters on hyperscale AI data centers and next-gen nuclear--two featured technologies on the MIT Technology Review list . China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to deal with their aging batteries. Here are our picks for the advances to watch in the years ahead--and why we think they matter right now.