“Artificial intelligence is not a toy. It is not a trend. It is a revolution at the scale of the personal computer, the internet, the smartphone, even the printing press. We cannot afford to stay behind”said Hernández Rivera during an audience of the Investigation Subcommission of the Natural Resources Committee, to which it belongs.
Although there are legitimate concerns about the high energy consumption of data centers, he said that many of the companies that operate themselves – as Amazon, Microsoft and Google– They are leaders of the transition to renewable energy, said the commissioner.
The resident commissioner stressed that the country faces a strategic decision of great importance, because a path must be traced that allows progress in both data centers and energy with renewable sources.
Hernández Rivera quoted the journalist Ezra Kleinin your book Abundancewho pointed out that “the Revolution of Artificial Intelligence makes the cause of energy abundance even more urgent.”
“In recent decades, energy infrastructure projects in the United States have been slowed down by auto -inflicted bottlenecks: low productivity in construction, permissions blockages, prolonged environmental reviews, and long interconnection rows. If we do not facilitate that artificial intelligence companies build in the United States, we should expect their data centers abroad to build ”also, Klein, in his book.