The Race Against China for Fusion Power: Whoever Controls It, Controls the Century
by Lawrence Kadish • August 2, 2025 at 5:00 am
If there were a formula for who will dominate the 21st century, it would be: Fusion Energy + AI = World Supremacy. (Image source: OpenAI)
Fusion energy is not only cheap, clean and limitless, it is also the "engine" that will drive the enormous increases in artificial intelligence (AI) that will be the ultimate super-weapon of this century. AI requires power -- enormous amounts of it -- that only fusion energy can provide.
If there were a formula for who will dominate the 21st century, it would be: Fusion Energy + AI = World Supremacy.
Our nation, however, is now faced with a new and dangerous 21st century threat.
China has been steamrolling ahead developing cheap, clean and limitless fusion energy to fuel the great new frontier of AI. Meanwhile, America appears stuck in the technology of soon-to-be-outdated fission energy.
