Trump to unveil investments to power AI boom

US president Donald Trump heads to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to announce energy and infrastructure deals intended to meet big tech’s soaring demand for electricity needed to fuel the AI boom.

Trump will make the announcement at the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University.

The tech world has fully embraced generative AI as the next wave of technology, but fears are growing that its massive electricity needs cannot be met by current infrastructure, particularly in the United States.

Generative AI requires enormous…