Powering AI data centers with free market reforms

Powering AI data centers with free market reforms

President Donald Trump wants technology companies to “build, bring, or buy all of the energy needed for building and operating data centers, paying the full cost of their energy and infrastructure” to protect Americans from higher electricity prices. His concern stems from projections that electricity demand from data centers could double or even triple by the end of the decade, while the grid is poorly positioned to absorb such rapid growth, as…

AI data center developers will finance nuclear energy investment

At a time when huge AI data center electricity demands are projected to cause domestic shortages, drive up costs and overwhelm transmission grid capacities, President Trump has a better idea; namely to have them apply ingenuity and enterprise to directly power up their own projects. During his Feb. 24 State of Union Address, the president said,