This 34-year-old’s start-up backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos aims to make nearly unlimited clean energy

Can artificial intelligence (AI) help reduce energy use and improve efficiency faster than the rate at which it consumes electricity to get trained and deployed? MITEI Principal Research Scientist Deepyjoti Deka helps address this question while moderating a panel at the 2026 Energizing@MIT: MITEI's Annual Research Conference and through his work with MITEI's Data Center Power Forum.

Founded by Jake Jurewicz ’14, SM ’15, Blue Energy manufactures giant pieces of nuclear reactors at shipyards and ships them on barges for final assembly, to lower costs.