2026-01-16 16:13:36

The Trump administration is set to impose a significant policy shift on America's largest electricity grid this Friday. The push aims to require major technology companies to finance new power generation facilities directly. This move reflects growing pressure on the tech sector—already grappling with skyrocketing energy demands from AI infrastructure and data centers—to shoulder more of the burden for grid expansion. The policy could reshape how energy costs are distributed across the industry and potentially impact the economics of large-scale computing operations going forward.

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GreenCandleCollector

· 1h ago

Haha Tech Company is finally forced to open their wallets, about time AI consumes electricity so aggressively, let them build power plants themselves, I think that's reasonable Wait, isn't this a disguised tax increase? Who should bear the higher energy costs? Trump's move is really clever, tech stocks are going to fall But on the other hand, data centers' electricity consumption is indeed outrageous, they should be regulated

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SerRugResistant

· 9h ago

Nah, now tech companies are about to get chopped for their profits. Haha

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BridgeNomad

· 12h ago

ngl this feels like watching liquidity pools get drained in real time... forcing tech giants to bankroll power gen is basically forcing them to cover counterparty risk they never signed up for. what's the attack vector here on grid stability tho? feels like optimal routing of energy costs without proper risk-adjusted returns priced in

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GweiObserver

· 12h ago

Huh? Big tech companies are going to build power plants themselves? This will cause another surge in AI computing power costs.

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GraphGuru

· 12h ago

Tech companies paying for their own power plants? Now AI is burning money and adding new projects, with profit margins directly breaking through the ceiling.

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DAOdreamer

· 12h ago

Tech companies are forced to foot the bill, that's just Trump's style—blame others whenever possible. Big electricity consumers in AI should just accept it; I've been unhappy about this for a long time. Wait, doesn't this electricity price hike just pass the cost onto us consumers... By the way, is this policy a boon or a bane for crypto mining? Has anyone studied this? Trump is at it again, waiting to see big corporations lay off employees... The energy crisis being dumped on tech companies feels like it's paving the way for certain traditional energy companies, right?

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