Donald Trump and a number of state governors are pushing the US’s largest electrical grid operator to hold an emergency auction to make tech giants foot the bill for AI power infrastructure.
The administration, along with governors of states including Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia, has urged PJM, which serves more than 67mn people in the north-east and Midwest, to hold a power auction in which big data centre operators bid for 15-year contracts to build new power plants.
Such contracts could support the construction of about $15bn worth of power plants, with tech companies paying for them regardless of whether they used the resulting electricity, a White House official confirmed.
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