Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of the interior has warned the US will lose the “AI arms race” to China unless it boosts electricity generation from fossil fuels and stabilises its power grid.
Doug Burgum, a billionaire businessman and former governor of North Dakota, told US senators on Thursday that the country had an “electricity crisis” due to weaknesses in the grid and “roadblocks” stopping companies from building fossil fuel plants that can supply round-the-clock power.
He added that the Trump administration would allocate more public land to drilling for oil and slash tax breaks favouring renewables companies that produce “intermittent and unreliable power”.
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