The amount of energy required to make economic quantities of gold would be enormous.
No one has yet made a fusion reactor that can produce even a few kilowatts of electric power as anything but short pulses, and that technology is still a long way away.
The capital cost of a 1GW nuclear plant is around $6B, in theory (the costs of meeting regulations and time uncertainties are almost incalculable).
The value of five tons of gold is around $106M, so the payback time for the $6B capital investment is close to 60 years. That’s just doing back-of-the-envelope calculations, and not counting overhead and operating costs, just capital.
Looks like it took a wicked jump (by a factor of six) at the beginning of 2024; right now it's near a local minimum, but still more than four times its traditional baseline.
I remember stories like this during Reagan’s terms. Things were generally improving steadily, and the MSM would hype various grievance groups on subjects no one had ever thought about.