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Fusion Energy Is Now An AI Problem (Commonwealth’s 5-Year Roadmap) w/ Brandon Sorbom
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1:04:00Now PlayingAI data centers are going to double their power consumption by 2030—so where's all that energy coming from?
In this episode of The Neuron Podcast, hosts Corey Noles and Grant Harvey sit down with Brandon Sorbom, Chief Science Officer and Co-founder of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, to explore how his company is racing to build the world's first commercial fusion power plant.
Brandon explains why fusion has been "30 years away" for decades, what changed with high-temperature superconducting magnets, and why fusion is fundamentally different from fission (fusion is "default off"—it wants to turn itself off, not melt down). We dive deep into CFS's AI collaborations with Google DeepMind and NVIDIA, the challenge of coordinating 10,000 unique parts, and when we might actually see fusion on the grid.
We cover:
• What fusion actually is (and why it's not "nuclear")
• Why high-temperature superconducting magnets changed the economics
• How AI is accelerating plasma control and simulation
• The safety profile that makes fusion regulated like an MRI
• Timeline: First plasma in 2027, Q1 shortly after
Learn more about Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Read Bob Mumgaard's "Building Trust in Fusion Energy"
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Building Trust in Fusion Energy
Hosted by: Corey Noles and Grant Harvey,
Guest: Brandon Sorbom, Chief Science Officer & Co-founder, Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Published by: Aubri Ziegler
Edited by: Kush Felisilda
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