{"id":229263,"date":"2026-01-18T10:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/trump-wants-tech-companies-to-foot-the-bill-for-new-power-plants-because-of-ai"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:38:05","slug":"trump-wants-tech-companies-to-foot-the-bill-for-new-power-plants-because-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/trump-wants-tech-companies-to-foot-the-bill-for-new-power-plants-because-of-ai","title":{"rendered":"Trump wants tech companies to foot the bill for new power plants because of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/trump-wants-tech-companies-to-foot-the-bill-for-new-power-plants-because-of-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright unveiled the plan at the White House with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and outgoing Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin. PJM representatives were not at the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to get out from underneath this bureaucratic system that we have in the regional grid operators and we\u2019ve got to allow markets to work,\u201d Burgum said at the White House. \u201cOne of the ways markets can work is to have the hyperscalers actually rapidly building power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Utility bills are rising in many parts of the U.S. despite Trump\u2019s promise to lower energy prices during his presidential campaign. The issue played a major role in the landslide victories of Democrats Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger in the governors\u2019 races of New Jersey and Virginia, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright unveiled the plan at the White House with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and outgoing Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin. PJM representatives were not at the event. \u201cWe have to get out from underneath this bureaucratic system that we have in the regional grid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}