The massive data center buildout happening across the country is driving up energy prices for local communities, creating shortages and strains as AI companies hammer the grid with demand. To solve that without telling tech companies to get bent (not that we should dismiss that option), we need to rapidly increase the available energy supply, and Donald Trump’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright has just the way to do it, according to a report from Bloomberg : use backup generators from Walmart.

Speaking Tuesday at the North American Gas Forum in Washington, Wright suggested that running existing generators available at big-box stores, data centers, and other industrial facilities could add up to 35 nuclear power plants’ worth of electricity. “We’re going to unleash that 35 gigawatts of

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