Trusting Machines with Power
In Machines we Trust
In Machines we Trust
4.3 • 6 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Chapters
00:00 AI's Power Hunger
01:48 Trump Admin's Plan
10:07 Energy Source Debate
13:30 Accountability for Consumption
In this episode, we explore the Trump administration's proposal for tech companies to invest $15 billion in power plants to meet the surging electricity demands of AI and data centers. We also discuss its potential impact on America's power grid, consumer costs, and the national effort to remain competitive in the global AI race.
Chapters
00:00 $15 Billion Power Plant Deal
01:48 PJM Grid Operator & Energy Needs
04:44 Alternative Power Solutions
06:45 The Trump Administration's Plan
10:05 Renewables vs. Consistent Power
13:33 Addressing Critiques and Future
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the show, we're going to be talking |
| 0:03.3 | about the latest deal from the Trump administration in regards to having tech companies by |
| 0:09.0 | $15 billion worth of power plants. Now, this is coming at a time when a lot of these big tech |
| 0:14.3 | companies are needing more and more power to help fuel the compute for training all of their |
| 0:19.0 | AI models and to power all of their data centers. So today on the show, I want to break down how this could shape some of America's |
| 0:25.6 | power consumption and how this deal worth, you know, $15 billion of power generation is going |
| 0:31.4 | to affect the nation's electrical grid. And essentially, you know, what's going to happen if we |
| 0:37.0 | don't do this this is |
| 0:38.3 | interesting as america is now trying to stay competitive in this global ai race there's a lot going on |
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| 1:12.1 | All right, let's get into the story. |
| 1:13.3 | So the Trump administration is joined by a group of governors in the mid-Atlantic and Midwest. |
| 1:19.4 | I think most, it's kind of bipartisan group that's coming together on this. |
| 1:22.8 | But they've all asked PJM interconnection. |
| 1:25.9 | So this is the grid operator that serves about 65 million Americans. |
| 1:30.1 | It's over about 13 different states and it is, you know, holding on quote unquote emergency |
| 1:35.8 | power auction to procure new generation capacity. So the idea is that tech companies, |
| 1:41.8 | especially those that are building these huge data centers everywhere, |
| 1:44.7 | are going to bid on 15-year power contracts that could help underwrite the construction of a lot of new power plants, |
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