On the previous day, many of the main technology leaders appeared in front of Congress, begging for more energy to make emerging American artificial intelligence, Donald Trump has signed an executive order that provides a solution: increased coal production.
As part of a series of executive orders issued on Tuesday, designed to enhance the rapid growth of the coal industry – opening federal mining lands, appointing coal as critical minerals, and using the powers of its emergency license to relax on environmental regulations on coal – Trump was signed one It is explicitly aimed at operating the artificial intelligence centers of energy intelligence using “beautiful clean coal resources” in America, as Trump described it. The matter directs commercial, energy and interior departments to conduct studies that define “where coal -running infrastructure is available and suitable for supporting artificial intelligence data centers,” as well as whether it will be economically feasible.
“As you know, we need to do Amnesty International, all this new technology that comes on the Internet,” Trump said on Tuesday during a signing ceremony for all four executive orders. “We need more than weak energy, electricity, which now we have.”
It is an unlimited and profitable solution to a real problem and looming on the horizon that escalates with America’s rapid dependence on artificial intelligence technology: How to operate all the necessary data centers for computing. On Wednesday’s session in the Energy and Trade Committee in the House of Representatives, only the amount that will be incorporated in daily life confirmed from national security to home tasks, and focused largely on the amount of huge force that must be poured to support this infrastructure. According to the witnesses, which included the former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt, Micron Technology EVP Manish Bhatia, and Scale Alexandr Wang, the industry is in urgent need of consistent and reliable energy.
“We need energy in all its forms. Renewable, not renewable, whatever. It should be there, and there must be quickly.”
“[W]”We need energy, and the numbers are deep. We need energy in all its forms. Renewable, not renewable, whatever it is. It must be there, and there must be quickly.” Actually, a study from the Electrical Energy Research Institute was martyred in the committee’s announcement of the session, expected Data centers can consume up to 9.1 percent of all energy in the United States by the end of the contract.
Hatia cited a separate study in his testimony indicating that due to this development, the total energy consumption will increase by 15 percent over the next five years – a great leap of 0.5 percent in energy consumption annually over the past few decades – and warned that without approaching energy that tends to multiple fuel sources to maintain low costs in the United States.
But although Trump has been a long -standing charcoal, due to his return attempt To save the coal factories from the closure in 2018, the American coal industry has been declining over the past few decades as consumers move towards alternative forms of energy such as oil, natural gas and green energy. Coal currently represents 15 percent of American power supply – a sharp decrease in 2011, when he presented nearly half of it – and with the decrease in the demand for coal, the ability to turn it into energy. According to New York Times a report From February, only 400 coal factories operate in the United States today, a decrease of 780 in 2000, and nearly half of the remaining retirement is determined in the next few decades. However, nearly a third of these plants have extended their life after their retired retirement, or they were completely rescued from retirement, thanks to a rapid increase in energy requirements – although experts have warned Times It is possible that it is not enough to reversed the decrease in coal.
At the same time, coal can tend to be a moral puzzle of artificial intelligence leaders, to say something about the technology industry, which has long strengthened itself as a supporter of green energy. In particular, Samtman, CEO of Openai, has paid a great power to sustainable energy as an energy source in the data center, and invest in everything from Solar energy to Nuclear fusion to Carbon startup Current emissions compensate, as a way to quickly expand the scope of cheap energy supply. But with Trump’s imprisonment in an international trade war that already threatens the future of the technology industry, it is not clear whether they may have to indulge in Trump’s mania with coal – as he said during the signing ceremony, “do not use the word” charcoal “unless you put” beautiful and clean “before that – to stay in the field of business.
