Trump wants coal to power AI data centers. The tech industry may need to make peace with that for now. Trump’s push to deploy coal runs afoul of the tech companies’ environmental goals. “I do not see the hyperscale community going out and signing long term commitments for new coal plants.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/17/trump-wants-coal-to-power-ai-data-centers-the-tech-industry-is-wary-.html

by mafco

27 comments

  1. Yes, let’s pollutes the air and poison the water supply with coal!

    “Make America Healthy Again”

  2. Dementia Don has no idea what year it is 😂

    Next he’ll be advocating for horse drawn carriages.

    “Death to Combustion engines!!! Make America Ancient Again!”

  3. Coal has nothing going for it. It’s expensive, filthy, dangerous, takes a long time to build and is environmentally destructive. Trump is obsessed with it. Meanwhile wind and solar are cheap, fast to build, clean and operate on unlimited free fuel. Trump hates them.

    Is he mentally ill? Someone should be looking into this.

  4. Putin benefits from climate change. Therefore trumps assignment is to increase climate change.

  7. You would think a news outlet devoted to economics would understand that the reason coal is on the way out so quickly is BECAUSE of the economics of it, in every part of the total picture.

  9. Of course, Trump doesn’t really use the current status of the world in his views, just keeps repeating the same old stuff. Interestingly, there’s not that many coal miners left, there’s way more baristas than coal miners. There’s no national effort to make sure we have enough baristas.

  10. The economics don’t work…coal power is too expensive..Our “dumb ass in Chief” doesn’t understand that.

  11. It takes twelve years to even start a coal plant…. stupid 

  12. This was never about AI data centers or how much power they needed, yall just been grifted for coal lobbyist.

  13. Natural Gas is cheaper in every single way, this is nonsense

  14. Im too lazy to read this, but this seems to be a click baiter. It is just idiotic to propose something like this

  15. He watched Rebel Moon coal powered spaceships and got an idea.

  16. By all means, we can use wind and solar to meet the AI energy demand, eh?

  17. Tech companies don’t have environmental goals, they have financial ones.

  18. lets also switch to typewriters and penny farthings – these fucking idiot clowns.

  19. Take a second to awe at the fact the POTUS dictates what companies should do, and the answer is “OK!🙃” What a world!

  20. Coal plants have been shuttered. They are not going to come back.

  21. What coal?

    It’s 2025. The coal is mostly gone.

  22. Sounds to me like AI’s biggest moment will be solving its own energy needs.

  23. So we are planning on living in the stupid, filthy country great

  24. Big tech is investing heavily in micro and small modular reactors for their AI data centers.

  25. 14 States have zero coal fired power stations. Soon there will be more.

  27. Clean coal has minimum environmental impact. It’s ironic that tech companies don’t know or don’t want to know about new developments in clean coal tech, likely for political reasons.

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