Diana DiGangi of Utility Dive reports that President Trump announced plans for an executive order to create a single national regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, arguing that companies shouldn’t need approval from multiple states. DiGangi writes:
President Donald Trump announced Monday his intention to sign an executive order aimed at setting a single national regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, as state leaders introduce their own proposals in response to constituent fears over privacy, energy costs, water usage and other issues.
“I will be doing a ONE RULE Executive Order this week,” Trump wrote on social media. “You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something.” […]
Grid operators, utilities, hyperscalers, regulators and advocates are locked in an intense debate over the impact of data centers on rising electricity costs. The market monitor for the PJM Interconnection, the largest grid in the country, has said data centers are the primary reason for surging capacity auction prices in that market. But a recent influential report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that generally, load growth helped depress electricity prices. […]
“You do not have enough grid capacity in the United States to do what they’re trying to do,” he added. “That’s just a fact.”
The governor also said he is pro-nuclear but criticized the idea of building nuclear plants in order to meet increased demand, arguing that traditional nuclear plants can take as much as a decade to come online and that small modular reactors “just [aren’t] economical – that’s why people aren’t doing it.” There are no operating SMRs in the U.S. and only a few worldwide.
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