Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On President Trump’s Harmful Clean Energy Executive Orders And Their Impact On Artificial Intelligence

Washington, D.C. - Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor addressing the need for clean energy to support AI data centers following the President's announcement on AI investments and energy-related executive orders. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Yesterday, a group of AI and tech companies announced their pledge to invest as much as $500 billion to ramp up our nation's AI and data center infrastructure. Of course, if AI becomes one of the central technologies of our lives as is expected, we must build the capacity to support that demand, no question about it.

But already, President Trump is tying himself into knots and talking out of both sides of his mouth.

On one hand, he goes on and on about how we need more power, we need more electricity, to meet the demands of AI. And on the other hand, he spent his first day in office proposing executive orders that cut clean energy investments, halting wind and solar, and putting those jobs at risk. These AI data centers will depend on more clean energy production and transmission, and cutting clean energy will cut a good chunk of the new energy that's about to come on board.

So, for President Trump to cut clean energy investments is tantamount to cutting AI's potential. One hand doesn't seem to know what the other hand is doing.

If President Trump wants to help AI's growth instead of hurt it, he should revoke his promise to kill the clean energy jobs we are going to need to support America's energy needs.

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