Donald Trump goes to Pennsylvania, the eastern United States of the United States on Tuesday, to announce investments of private business and infrastructure, when the tech sector is faced with the ever-increasing needs for artificial intelligence electricity.
The American president will make this announcement at the first Summit on Pennsylvania energy and innovation at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
The technology sector has thrown itself with a lost body in the development of generative AI, but fears that massive electricity needs can be met by the existing infrastructure, especially in the United States.
The generative AI requires enormous calculation capacities, mainly to operate the Vvidia energy processors from NVIDIA, this Californian electronic flea company that has become the largest market capitalization in the world by surfing the AI wave very early on.
The American authorities expect that by 2028, the electricity needs of tech companies for AI will be equivalent to those of 5 million households.
– Data centers –
The investments announced Tuesday by Donald Trump will amount to $ 70 billion, according to a Trump administration official with the Bloomberg media.
The bosses of financial companies like Blackrock, technological like Palantir and Anthropic, but also of hydrocarbons like Exxon and Chevron must participate, added this manager.
Investments will aim to build data centers (data centers), production and electricity distribution network, or learning programs.
Tech Google giant said that it would invest $ 25 billion to build data centers dedicated to AI in Pennsylvania and neighboring regions.
“We support the clear and urgent directive of President Trump so that our country invests in AI (…) so that America continues to be a leader in AI,” said Ruth Porat, president and director of investments at Google, present to the event.
The company also announced a partnership with the financial giant Brookfield Asset Management to modernize two hydroelectric production sites in Pennsylvania, which can produce 670 Megawatts.
For the Republican senator David McCormick, these investments are of “enormous importance” for his state in Pennsylvania, but they are also “crucial for the future of the country”.
– Race with Beijing –
His statements reflect the trend shared by both political edges in Washington that the United States must do more so as not to lose ground against China in this race for artificial intelligence.
“If the United States does not lead this revolution under our own conditions, we will give in control of our infrastructure, our data, our leadership, and from our vacuum mode to communist China,” said Senator McCormick in a gallery at Fox News.
Donald Trump launched the “Stargate” project in January, which aims up to $ 500 billion in IA infrastructure.
The Japanese investment firm in Tech Softbank, as well as the American companies in Silicon Valley Openai (Chatgpt) and Oracle, have decided to invest $ 100 billion in the initial phase of the project.
Since his return to the White House, Donald Trump has rear back to many regulations adopted under Joe Biden to frame the development of powerful AI algorithms and limit the exports of certain advanced technologies to allied countries.
The American president is expected to unveil his own framework program for the development of artificial intelligence during the month of July.
Posted on July 15 at 10:17 p.m., AFP