Record Breaking $500 Billion AI Investment Threatens New Global Warming
The new Administration has set goals to fund $500 billion in infrastructure investing, much of which will help build AI data centers. These data centers use so much electricity that they have started to compete with residents and legacy businesses for energy,
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The new initiative will operate under a company named Stargate. What President Trump called the “largest AI infrastructure project in history,” will be supported by several companies which include Oracle, OpenAI, and Softbank. The projects could create as many as 100,000 jobs the participants said.
What is not clear at all is what the source of the electricity for data centers will be. According to the EIA, 60% of electricity generation is from fossil fuels. About 21% comes from renewables. A total of 10% of the total is from wind energy. This is the one area of new energy sources that the Administration is partially shutting down.
Electricity And Fossil Fuels
There are two challenges to any major electricity infrastructure expansion. One is the aging grid that will need years to replace in some areas. The other is that global warming will almost certainly be negatively affected by electricity powered by coal and oil.
The plan is another example of how the push into AI has negative fallout for “green.”
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