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Vinod Khosla Says ‘Fusion Will Be Real’ Within the Next Five Years

The billionaire investor sees the technology as a way to decarbonize the AI-fueled data center boom.

Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, during the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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A holy grail of clean power generation, nuclear fusion, will be a reality within five years, according to OpenAI backer and tech billionaire Vinod Khosla.

A major booster of artificial intelligence who wrote the first venture capital check for Sam Altman’s OpenAI, Khosla said fusion will be key to meeting data center energy demand.