News Trump administration declares 'most powerful' AI chips will be built in America

[Admin]

The U.S. Vice President spoke at the international Paris AI Summit in front of world leaders and laid down the Trump administration's plan for AI technology in the U.S.

Trump administration declares 'most powerful' AI chips will be built in America : Read more

 

[Gururu]

I don't care who builds them but power to that.

 

[jp7189]

Despite the "drill baby drill" rhetoric, I'm hoping nuclear takes center stage for power expansion in the US. Newer designs are so much better, and we just need regulators to push approvals though. It would be great if we see an overhaul of that process.

 

[P.Amini]

Despite the "drill baby drill" rhetoric, I'm hoping nuclear takes center stage for power expansion in the US. Newer designs are so much better, and we just need regulators to push approvals though. It would be great if we see an overhaul of that process.

Nuclear is green when it works as intended but a DISASTER when it fails (earthquake, etc.). Everything is safe and sound? Take a look at what happened to LA recently.

 

[evdjj3j]

Nuclear is green when it works as intended but a DISASTER when it fails (earthquake, etc.). Everything is safe and sound? Take a look at what happened to LA recently.

Don't build your power plant on a fault line.

 

[bit_user]

Nuclear is green when it works as intended but a DISASTER when it fails (earthquake, etc.). Everything is safe and sound? Take a look at what happened to LA recently.

AFAIK, there are isotopes which don't have the potential to meltdown (Thorium?), the way Uranium does. I'm sure @The Historical Fidelity would know more.

I wonder if there's any way you could scale up the "nuclear battery" approach, since relying on a steam-driven turbine might not be feasible in some arid regions.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...eloped-nuclear-battery-has-a-50-year-lifespan
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[bit_user]

Don't build your power plant on a fault line.

Or put the backup generators for cooling them below crest height of a tsunami, right?

 

[COLGeek]

As a reminder folks, please focus on tech and not politics. Thank you.

 

[mitch074]

Bashing GDPR because it aims at protection personal data ? Sure, companies would love going back to a time where they could go whatever they wanted with your personal data - scams, spam etc. Now they'll use that to train an AI that will also consider opinions to be better than fact, the leader's morals as its 'moral' compass, and driving its weapons.
Skynet, at least, was logical.

 

[jp7189]

I just looked up the numbers. To power a single gigawatt AI datacenter in Teaxs (region is rated at 20% capacity factor) would require 31,250 acres of solar panels. Plus you'd need an immense amount of battery storage to go with it. A complete nuclear facility needs 1-2,000 acres, and no battery storage to produce significantly more than 1 GW (up to 8GW)

Stargate is talking about 10-20 datacenters.. though they didn't talk about power usage.

The vast majority of power generation in Texas is fossil fuels. As it stands now most of the new datacenters will run on natural gas and coal power.

 

[SonoraTechnical]

Feels like we are going to see something like Mortal Engines played out eventually. LOL!! Ah, what a bright AI driven future lies ahead....

 

[JeffreyP55]

AFAIK, there are isotopes which don't have the potential to meltdown (Thorium?), the way Uranium does. I'm sure @The Historical Fidelity would know more.

I wonder if there's any way you could scale up the "nuclear battery" approach, since relying on a steam-driven turbine might not be feasible in some arid regions.

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https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...eloped-nuclear-battery-has-a-50-year-lifespan​

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[bit_user]

Bashing GDPR because it aims at protection personal data ?

To gain more insight into that comment, it might help to look into Vance's professional history. I could imagine he's speaking less on behalf of the administration and more out of his own exposure to the subject.

 

[bit_user]

to safeguard America’s advantage, the Trump administration will ensure the most powerful AI systems are built in the US with American-designed and manufactured chips.”

I think the main issue is that this is an aspiration and not a plan. Intel just delayed it's big datacenter Xeons set to use its 18A process until next year.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...sses-clearwater-forest-pushed-back-to-1h-2026
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So, what plausible chance do they have of taking over all the production currently being sourced from TSMC's Taiwan fabs, in any kind of relevant timescale? And if the US pulls production of datacenter AI chips from Taiwan (and South Korea, if the rumors of Nvidia moving some production there are true), won't that just free up the capacity for non-US AI chips to be made there?

Right now, TSMC is only set to start N3 production in the US in 2028. Even if they change plans for it to be N2, the date needed to build the necessary infrastructure might be a lot harder to move.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-i...hips-abroad-country-lowers-its-silicon-shield
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