Derrière les promesses de Trump, la dure réalité du fracking à Dimock 4:40 Min. by France 24, Jan 19, 2025
Lors de sa campagne, Donald Trump a fait de l’indépendance énergétique une priorité, promettant de relancer massivement la fracturation hydraulique. Mais en Pennsylvanie, où il a de nouveau gagné en 2024, la réalité est plus nuancée. À Dimock, une petite ville rurale, l’eau est contaminée et des problèmes de santé touchent la population, mettant en lumière les risques souvent minimisés de cette méthode.
Trump letting his bro billionaires (that put him back into power) go wild, deregulated, putting water, the grid and global not just national security at risk. Is he going to give AI data centres free frac’d gas to create the electricity needed to power them like Alberta appears to be doing?
@Public_Citizen Jan 22, 2025:
Trump just ended all regulation on AI.
This is a giant handout to his new billionaire tech bro friends.
We should be making AI smarter and safer.
Instead, Trump is letting Big Tech run wild and putting national security at risk.
Why Trump’s plan to ‘drill, baby, drill’ is unlikely to cut gas prices and fix inflation
Trump announces private-sector $500 billion investment in AI infrastructure by Steve Holland, January 21, 2025, Reuters
- Summary
- Tech leaders credit Trump win for initiative
- Stargate plans construction of 20 data centers
- Trump says project will create 100,000 jobsYa sure, like the frac’ers promised us the moon and mars too, and then went bankrupt after ripping $billions off of stupid investors.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a private sector investment of up to $500 billion to fund infrastructure for artificial intelligence, aiming to outpace rival nations in the business-critical technology.
Trump said that ChatGPT’s creator OpenAI, SoftBank (9984.T), opens new tab and Oracle (ORCL.N), opens new tab are planning a joint venture called Stargate, which he said will build data centers and create more than 100,000 jobs in the United States.
These companies, along with other equity backers of Stargate, have committed $100 billion for immediate deployment, with the remaining investment expected to occur over the next four years.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison joined Trump at the White House for the launch.
The first of the project’s data centers are already under construction in Texas, Ellison said at the press conference. Twenty will be built, half a million square feet each, he said. The project could power AI that analyzes electronic health records and helps doctors care for their patients, Ellison said.
The executives gave Trump credit for the news. “We wouldn’t have decided to do this,” Son told Trump, “unless you won.”Ya because the greedy fuckers know Trump is so insane, he’ll bow to their every demand, deregulate AI and let the tech bros wreck havoc on the world with their greed and insanity while ordinary American families starve and watch their homes and communities destroyed by the ravages of global warming.
“For AGI to get built here,” said Altman, referring to more powerful technology called artificial general intelligence, “we wouldn’t be able to do this without you, Mr. President.”
It was not immediately clear whether the announcement was an update to a previously reported venture.
In March 2024, The Information, a technology news website, reported OpenAI and Microsoft were working on plans for a $100 billion data center project that would include an artificial intelligence supercomputer also called “Stargate” set to launch in 2028.
POWER-HUNGRY DATA CENTERS
The announcement on Trump’s second day in office follows the rolling back of former President Joe Biden’s executive order on AI, that was intended to reduce the risks that AI poses to consumers, workers and national security.
AI requires enormous computing power, pushing demand for specialized data centers that enable tech companies to link thousands of chips together in clusters.
“They have to produce a lot of electricity, and we’ll make it possible for them to get that production done very easily at their own plants if they want,” Trump said.Fucking orange douche. May the $500 billion AI data centres get fast destroyed by the wrath of frac and other human pollution and greed fed climate chaos in fires, floods, hurricanes, and billionaire duelling egos.
As U.S. power consumption rises from AI data centers and the electrification of buildings and transportation, about half of the country is at increased risk of power supply shortfalls in the next decade, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation said in December.
As a candidate in 2016, Trump promised to push a $1 trillion infrastructure bill through Congress but did not. He talked about the topic often during his first term as president from 2017 to 2021, but never delivered on a large investment, and “Infrastructure Week” became a punchline.
Oracle shares were up 7% on initial report of the project earlier in the day. Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab, Arm Holdings and Dell (DELL.N), opens new tab shares also rose.
Investment in AI has surged since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022, as companies across sectors have sought to integrate artificial intelligence into their products and services.
Reporting by Steve Holland, Costas Pitas, Anna Tong and Jeffrey Dastin; editing by Rami Ayyub, Heather Timmons, David Gregorio, Chizu Nomiyama, Nia Williams and Cynthia Osterman
Same greed-farming and favouring the ultra rich by Trump Cult Member Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta Oil & Gas: