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The day before several major tech leaders appeared before Congress, begging for ways to get more energy for the nascent American artificial intelligence industry, Donald Trump signed an executive order offering a solution: increased coal production.

As part of a series of executive orders released Tuesday designed to promote the rapid growth of the coal industry — opening federal lands for mining, designating coal as a critical mineral, and using his emergency authorization powers to relax environmental regulations on coal — Trump signed one explicitly aimed towards powering energy-hungry AI data centers using America’s “beautiful clean coal resources”, as Trump described it. The order directs the Commerce, Energy, and Interior Departments to conduct studies determining “where coal-powered infrastructure is available and suitable for supporting AI data centers,” as well as whether it would be economically feasible.Â

“You know, we need to do the AI, all of this new technology that’s coming on line,” Trump said on Tuesday during a signing ceremony for all four executive orders. “We need more than double the energy, the electricity, that we currently have.”

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

The future of travel is horses! Tie some onions on your belt too!