Bill Gates is ready to sink billions into getting next-generation nuclear energy off the ground in the United States. The world’s sixth richest man has been a staunch nuclear supporter for years now, and has already sunk over a billion dollars of his own money into his innovative nuclear power start-up TerraPower LLC. But according to Gates, that cool billion is just the beginning. “I put in over a billion, and I’ll put in billions more,” Gates was recently quoted by Bloomberg.
Bill Gates’ TerraPower, which he co-founded and co-funded with fellow multi-billionaire Warren Buffett the two men have estimated net worths of $140 billion and $103 billion, respectively, will likely directly supply nuclear energy to power Microsoft’s own massive Artificial Intelligence ambitions.