Washington: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has established a new energy council to address the growing demands of electricity, with the aim of strengthening the country’s position in his rivalry of artificial intelligence with China.
“We are going to be a dominant energy like nobody else, and this does not even cover all the electricity that we are going to produce for all AI plants,” Trump told reporters while signing the order.
“They need at least twice the electricity we have at this time,” he added.
Trump’s secretary, Doug Burgum, who also attended the firm, said: “The United States is in an AI arms race with China. The only way we win is more electricity.”
According to the White House, the Council will coordinate the energy policy between federal agencies and will expedite permits, production and distribution of various energy resources.
The measure is aligned with the promise of the Trump campaign to “pierce, baby, pierce”, increase the national production of oil and gas and reverse any concern of the Biden administration about carbon emissions or the impact on climate change.
The objective is also to counteract the possible growing costs of Trump’s commercial wars, which could see that energy prices increase once energy imports or US exports are affected by tariffs.
The demands of the AI industry for electricity are acute, and data servers already exert great pressure on the excessively stretched electricity supply of the country.
The supply of electricity in the United States has suffered a chronic underestimation, exacerbated by the aging of off -line nuclear plants.
Technology CEOs have intensely pressed to the Trump administration to focus on the need for power to meet their demands.
As soon as 2028, officials expect technological companies to have training energy needs of up to five gigawatts, enough to feed approximately five million homes.
