The future of artificial intelligence is supplied with coal

The day before the presence of several senior technology executives in the US Congress to request a solution to provide more energy for the fledgling industry Intelligence Artificial The country, Donald Trump, issued an executive order: Increasing production Coal!

According to Verj, the command is part of the collection of instructions that Trump signed on Tuesday with the aim of rapid growth of the coal industry. These include the opening of federal lands for extraction, the introduction of coal as a vital mineral, and the use of emergency powers to reduce environmental restrictions related to the industry.

Coal -based Data Centers of Data Centers

But one of these commands is specifically for energy supply Artificial intelligence data centers That have a lot of need for electricity issued; Also through “Beautiful Coal Resources of America“; The phrase that Trump used in his remarks.

It obliges the ministries of commerce, energy and the country to conduct studies to determine in which areas of coal -based infrastructure in which areas can be suitable for supporting artificial intelligence data centers and whether it is economically economical.

Trump said at the signing ceremony:

“You know, we need artificial intelligence and all these new technologies. “We need more than twice the current amount of electricity.”

The meeting attended witnesses from the technology industry, including Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO), Manish Batia (chief executive of Micron Technology) and Alexander Wang (CEO of Scale AI) and all warned of reliable and sustainable energy shortages.

Schmidt said at the beginning of his testimony

“We need energy and this is very high. We need energy from all resources; Renewable, unpopular, no difference. It only has to be and it should be fast. “

According to a study of the US Electric Energy Research Institute, which was mentioned at the meeting, it is expected that data centers will account for up to 9.1 percent of the US power consumption by the end of the year.

Despite Trump’s attempt to support coal – which goes back to his first presidency and his efforts to prevent the closure of coal power plants – the US coal industry has declined in recent decades. Coal, which in 2011 supplies about half of the US energy consumption, now covers only 15 % of that need. Similarly, the capacity of coal -to -energy conversion has also decreased.