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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