Data centers are being built with unprecedented gusto all over the U.S. The reason for this is fairly well known: the AI business requires gargantuan amounts of electricity and computing power. Every time you use an app like DALL-E to, say, make one of those dumb AI-generated images of Mickey Mouse committing the 9/11 terrorist attacks , you’re apparently using as much energy as it takes to charge an iPhone . Now picture how much electricity is being used if millions of Americans do it at the same time.

The Trump administration has made it known that it’s a friend to the AI industry (it recently launched the AI infrastructure initiative Stargate ) and so, it makes perfect sense that its Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, has decided to cut the red tape when it comes to hooking data

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