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Trump and Mid-Atlantic governors want tech companies to pay for new power plants

2 months ago01 mins

An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2026. | Photo: Getty Images Image: History in HD / Unsplash The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electricity market in the US, to hold a power auction meant to spur a…

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The Grid’s New Masters: How Tech’s Power Hunger Sparks a $1 Trillion Infrastructure Gamble

2 months ago05 mins

Introduction A quiet revolution is reshaping the American landscape, not in Silicon Valley boardrooms, but in the humming corridors of power grids. As artificial intelligence and cloud computing explode, their voracious appetite for electricity is colliding with an aging national infrastructure. Now, an unprecedented alliance of federal and state leaders is pushing a radical market…