The Trump administration is urging federal regulators to dramatically speed up approvals for the rapidly expanding AI data-center industry to link up with America’s power grids.
Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Naureen S. Malik for Bloomberg News:
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to grant expedited reviews for data-center grid connections, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. Under a draft proposed rule Wright sent to the agency, those reviews would be limited to 60 days, a seismic shift for a process that currently can drag on for years.
Faster approvals would be a major boon to President Donald Trump’s artificial-intelligence ambitions.
This type of rule change has been eagerly anticipated by tech and power executives in the aftermath of the FERC’s rejection of a request by Talen Energy Corp. to directly supply an Amazon.com Inc. data center from a Pennsylvania nuclear plant.
MacDailyNews Take: China is certainly not delaying AI data-center hookups to power grids, quite the opposite, actually.
Read President Trump’s “America’s AI Action Plan” in full here.
See also: Apple begins shipping American-made AI servers from Houston plant – October 24, 2025
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Trump, AI’s Al Gore?
So rejecting some of these huge power suckers’ attempts to have their own power sources (nuclear, wind, solar) then pushing for faster authorization to connect directly to the grid.
Hmmm…
That is certainly going to stress the ancient grid that is currently in place and absolutely raise prices for the average consumer and small to medium sized businesses.
New technologies need to be propped up initially. Internet was propped up initially with tax breaks and whatnot.