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The power demands of AI are reshaping energy policy in real-time. Trump and Mid-Atlantic governors are pushing for an emergency auction to secure 15-year electricity contracts — essentially asking tech companies to fund new power plants. This signals just how seriously policymakers are taking the AI compute bottleneck, though it raises interesting questions about who ultimately bears these infrastructure costs.

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Trump and Mid-Atlantic governors want tech companies to pay for new power plants

The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electricity market in the US, to hold a power auction meant to spur a massive buildout of new power plants. Together, they're "urging" PJM to hold an "emergency" auction for companies to procure electricity over 15-year contracts. The unusually […]

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