Big Brain During a consortium of global billionaires and power players, President Donald Trump said AI is so important that he plans to attach literal powerplants to AI datacenters. “We’re going to make it so that the plants will have their own electric generating facilities attached right to their plant,” Trump said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, per The Hill. “They don’t have to worry about a utility.” As they stand today, AI datacenters use massive amounts of energy from existing electrical grids. That insatiable hunger is already starting to hamstring the energy sector, which seems to be why Trump wants to cut out the middleman and give these datacenters their own power sources. He apparently plans to make this happen via his emergency energy declaration, which was issued immediately after his inauguration. Many consider it a thank-you gift to the fossil fuel industry for its financial support during his reelection campaign; with its “drill, baby, drill” ethos, this unprecedented bill is part of Trump’s broader effort to “unleash” traditional — read: nonrenewable — energy companies from the binds of regulation. During his speech at Davos, an AI-enthused Trump seemed bullish on the prospect of new energy projects for the technology’s infrastructure and suggested he’d get them done by any means necessary. “We’re going to build electric generating facilities, they are going to build. I’m going to get them the approval,” the president said. “Under emergency declaration, I can get the approvals done myself without having to go through years of…Trump Says AI Is So Important He'll Build New Power Plants Attached to Datacenters