Big Tech — thirsty for enough electricity to power its AI ambitions — wants to make nuclear energy cool again. That’s all driving up demand for uranium enrichment, now seen as a significant bottleneck in the nuclear energy supply chain. But already, data centers and AI have been a major driver in reinvigorating nuclear energy, Ashkeboussi tells The Verge. And the federal government has yet to solve decades of wrangling over where to store radioactive waste from nuclear reactors. I think there’s a lot of momentum to really get it right,” says Rowen Price, senior policy advisor for nuclear energy at the nonprofit Third Way, which supports nuclear energy.