Donald Trump announced on Tuesday investment of private business in energy and infrastructure in Pennsylvania, the eastern industrial state of the United States, when the Tech sector is faced with the ever-increasing needs for artificial intelligence (IA).
In all, several organizations will inject approximately $ 92 billion into data centers (36 billion) and energy production sites (56 billion).
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 IT calculation capacities, mainly to operate the VOLES in NVIDIA voracious processors, this Californian electronic flea company that has become the largest market capitalization in the world by riding 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.
“We are here today because we think it is America’s destiny to dominate all industries and to be the first in all technologies, including the first super power in the world in AI,” said Donald Trump on stage.
“And we are largely ahead of China, I must say it. And the factories are coming, construction begins,” added the American president, at the first summit on Pennsylvania energy and innovation at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
– Remains “Leader” –
Among the groups present, Google has announced a two-year investment of $ 25 billion in AI data and infrastructure centers in northeast states of the country, as well as $ 3 billion to modernize two hydroelectric plants in Pennsylvania.
“We support President Trump’s clear and urgent call to invest in infrastructure, technology and energy production necessary for the development of AI, so that the United States remains the leader in this area,” said Ruth Porat, director of alphabet and Google investments.
“While the United States and China are a race to dominate the war of artificial intelligence, technological giants invest massively to gain shares in this fourth industrial revolution,” said Wedbush analyst Dan Ives.
He estimates that around 15 % of computer budgets are now reserved for AI or influenced by this technology.
Other technological companies, energy companies and financial firms were present in Pittsburgh, including Blackstone, which also promised 25 billion dollars for data and infrastructure centers.
Groups also intend to invest in learning programs.
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 16 at 12:09 a.m.
