- The ee. UU interior believes that winning AI’s arms race is a priority
- We need a lot of electricity now: renewable energies are not up to work
- Climate change is ‘solutionable’: AI could help
Speaking at an event of the natural gas industry in Italy that promotes fossil fuels for AI Power (through YouTube), the Secretary of the Interior of the United States, Doug Burgum, said that the true existential threat is that the United States loses the arms race of AI, not climate change.
Burgum acknowledged that climate change is really a concern, but it is a “solussionable” and less urgent than the domain of AI.
He also criticized the global investment of $ 5 billion in wind, solar and batteries, calling it ineffective and inflationary.
Is winning the AI career more important than climate change?
Despite strong progress, renewable energies are still considered too slow and expensive, especially to meet AI’s energy demands. The emphasis of the event was in cheap and abundant energy to feed AI data centers, with AI causing the greatest use of electricity in human history.
However, the ongoing geopolitical tensions continue to influence climate change and artificial intelligence infrastructure, and the United States plan to put an end to Russian uranium imports (for nuclear energy) by 2028.
On the other side of the currency, China’s strategy implies investing in all forms of energy, including coal, nuclear, wind and solar, to guarantee maximum energy security and maintain its export advantage.
Speaking at the event, Trump’s Secretary of Interior emphasized the need to focus on humans on the planet today, not future generations, claiming that saving the planet depends on winning the AI arms race and not avoiding a degree of global warming for 2100.
“We need power to do that, and we need it now,” he said.
Counteracting Burgum ‘point of view, scientists estimate that we are actually on the way to reading 2.7-3 degrees of global warming for 2100, and AI energy demands are only worsening this trend.
Although artificial intelligence could have the key to unlocking greater corrections of climate change, it is also clear that a division is arising from the additional expansions, at the risk of sustainability, they will be worth it.
