Jose Carlos Fajardo — Bay Area News Group Solar panels installed by Cinnamon Energy Systems. The United States is fast approaching an inflection point in energy policy. Artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, cloud computing and advanced defense systems are driving electricity demand at a level that the existing grid cannot reliably meet. The next generation of data centers will require ever more constant large-scale power measured in gigawatts, not megawatts. Without change, energy is becoming the limiting factor in American economic expansion. This urgency explains the renewed interest in nuclear energy and the continued interest in fusion. Both may play important...