“We don’t want windmills in this country. The wind blows and then it doesn’t blow; the things cost a fortune; they are made in China; they kill the birds; they’re horrible.”
He also made his feelings clear about solar power:
“You know what people also don’t like? Those massive solar fields built over land that cover 10 miles by 10 miles. I mean they are ridiculous, the whole thing.”
But Trump has also been vocal about the urgency of getting more energy online to power AI data centers as the US seeks to dominate the industry.
“You know, we need to do the AI, all of this new technology that’s coming online,” Trump said at an April event promoting the struggling US coal industry. “We need more than double the energy, the electricity, that we currently have.”
The Financial Times reports that data center owners are warning the Trump administration that the quickest, cheapest, and easiest way to spin up huge amounts of power is to back renewables. And, if they spurn renewables, it could put America behind in the AI race.
“We don’t want windmills in this country. The wind blows and then it doesn’t blow; the things cost a fortune; they are made in China; they kill the birds; they’re horrible.”
He also made his feelings clear about solar power:
“You know what people also don’t like? Those massive solar fields built over land that cover 10 miles by 10 miles. I mean they are ridiculous, the whole thing.”
But Trump has also been vocal about the urgency of getting more energy online to power AI data centers as the US seeks to dominate the industry.
“You know, we need to do the AI, all of this new technology that’s coming online,” Trump said at an April event promoting the struggling US coal industry. “We need more than double the energy, the electricity, that we currently have.”
The Financial Times reports that data center owners are warning the Trump administration that the quickest, cheapest, and easiest way to spin up huge amounts of power is to back renewables. And, if they spurn renewables, it could put America behind in the AI race.
