Posted on 12/18/2025 2:00:53 PM PST by BeauBo
Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the operator of Truth Social, has agreed to an all-stock merger with nuclear fusion firm TAE Technologies, valued at roughly $6 billion.
The deal is a strategic pivot to address the massive electricity demand from the artificial intelligence sector, transforming the social media company into a vertically integrated tech and energy giant.
The new entity plans to build a 50-megawatt fusion pilot plant starting in 2026, marking an attempt to become one of the first publicly traded commercial fusion energy firms...
...The deal, which is set to close in mid-2026, would create one of the first publicly traded fusion energy firms. TMTG is putting up $200 million in cash at signing and another $100 million when the merger paperwork is officially filed.
For TMTG, the deal offers a bridge to the physical infrastructure world. For TAE, it provides a massive cash injection and a direct path to the Nasdaq.
(Excerpt) Read more at oilprice.com ...
"scientists have been promising commercial fusion for decades without quite getting it to the finish line.
TAE says it is finally ready. Based in California and backed by more than $1.3 billion from the likes of Google and Chevron, the company plans to start building a 50-megawatt pilot plant in 2026. If that works, they intend to scale up to much larger 350- to 500-megawatt facilities."
—”Trump likely knows something...”
That would be insider trading, same/same Nancy.
“Absolutely no funny business.”
“”scientists have been promising commercial fusion for decades without quite getting it to the finish line.”
Fusion is a long term play. Fusion may not be commercial for decades.
Trump is a billionaire. Billionaires can afford to fund risky long term plays that may not pay off for generations.
Trump is also a patriot who probably thinks this merger will not only help the fusion research cause but further associate his name with long term energy.
Despite the $6 billion valuation, the merger is not without risk. Nuclear fusion remains one of the most difficult engineering challenges on the planet. While TAE has operated five experimental reactors over 25 years, moving to a utility-scale plant is a massive leap that will face intense regulatory scrutiny and technical hurdles.
If the 2026 construction goal holds, the company would be moving at a pace rarely seen in the nuclear industry. The deal still requires the green light from shareholders and federal regulators before it can close.
For now, the merger stands as one of the most unusual bets in the energy sector. It suggests that the next phase of the "AI revolution" might not be won by the companies building the software, but by whoever can figure out how to keep the lights on.
Depends on how he knows it.
What’s with the Q-Tips logo...?
Looks to me like cross-lap boot laces.
Or maybe the lacing on the side of a pair of tight leather pants.
Have to wonder what they think it is.
This is not how insider trading works.
My guess is it’s suppose to be nuclear fuel rods with electrons moving between rods (creating the heat for boiling water to make steam… although maybe that applies more to fission than fusion).—former Navy Nuc and civilian nuclear plant operator.
Looks like a merger of the con and fusion…confusion!
I’ve been hearing about nuclear fusion power for about 50 years. ITER is 15 years late and 15 billion over budget. The French environment minister was holding things up. OTOH the budget of 20 billion is 1% percent of the value of Musk’s companies. So someone could do it.
OMG OF COURSE!!
WHO IS GOING TO CREATE THE WATER FOR THE DATA CENTERS DEMAND
”scientists have been promising commercial fusion for decades without quite getting it to the finish line.”
It would ruin profits. They’d kill you first.
Data centers don’t have to consume cooling water they can do air to air dry cooling tech. CO2 based heat pumps do air to air even in subzero temps for heating and 140+F they can still do heat sink to air at that temps.
Aalo the sodium reactor group from Austin is doing not only dry reactor turbine cooling they also plan to use the waste heat to do adsorption chillers for the data centers they are powering dry as well. They are targeting West Texas for data centers and Austin too.
Evaporative cooling is cheap and when water is cheap profits drives them to use it, simply charge a premium for consumptive vs non consumptive water use and the problem solves itself. Most homes and industry are non consumptive water use the flows return down the sewage system and back to the watershed. DFW even cleans this flow up and sends it back upstream to the water supply lakes something like 40% of the water in Lake Lavon is recycled and returned outfall.effluent from the Trinity River and there’s treatment plants directly discharge into Lake Lavon up stream from it. Most cities do this, Austin is building it’s return lines, Houston does it to Lake Livingston, S.A.does it to the Edwards aquifer directly.
Again it’s the cheapness of bulk water is the issue that can be changed via policy and mandate.
We need to get fusion to work before the Chinese it’s that simple. Everything else is a distraction from that fact. It’s a national security issue of the highest orders.
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