I am old enough to remember when Obama proposed a series of initiatives to update the power grid, most of which were blocked by republicans on account of naughty naughty socialism.
The actual threat is hyperscale datacenters.
As for this, just a grift to find a way to funnel more money to his buddies so they don’t have to pay to fix their systems and/or pocket money from taxpayers.
Every one of these is always a grift.
It’s either that or he just signalled to the world the majority of the PLCs managing the US critical infrastructure are internet facing, requiring little/no effort to infiltrate it.
That would suggest intelligence.
This is so fucking stupid.
This problem has been known for years. YEARS.
EV Charger Hacking Poses a ‘Catastrophic’ Risk — Wired Magazine, July 5, 2023
You know how they have effectively and efficiently handled problems like this in the past?
Well they don’t gut the fucking government, hamstringing the agencies responsible for ensuring the safety of these devices and of our cybersecurity as a whole, refuse to create rules over the equipment and infrastructure that protects our infrastructure, and then publicize that it’s a problem before any meaningful change has been made so that every fucking script kiddie and malcontent with AI tokens can try their hand at taking down a region’s power grid, let alone the state actors who have the resources to do it anyway.
They keep it quiet. Pass boring-ass rules and don’t say shit until they’re sure the threat has passed or has been sufficiently remediated.Terrible fucking governance. They’re literally publicizing a way to conduct a terror attack against the U.S. before they have a plan to handle it.
Which might be the point.
If Trump is, in fact, a foreign asset, and compromised actor, would he be doing anything differently?
You read between the lines, my friend.
Fucking stupid. The real danger to the grid is conservatives not letting us invest in infrastructure improvements
So fucking stupid bro. Do some fucking renewable energy then. Create jobs, energy independent, combat climate change
Its renewables fault. If Biden hadn’t invested in renewables we could have the money spent on clean coal.
We could have bought all that bleach that wasn’t used to make people healthy during the pandemic (also Bifen’s fault - very bad!) and used it to wash all the coal to make it clean (very good for the environment).
That’s why we are building datacentres so fast so you can have clean coal really quickly.
I will stop now as nanny tells me its potty time.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS MATTER!
So how many national emergencies is this now? Seems like we have a new one every week…
It’s the same one ever week and it’s the national emergency named Donald Trump.
So you stop asking for the epstien files
A new distraction every week/day/hour. You gotta hand it to them, it’s working on the smooth brain idiots.
As many as necessary to misdirect taxpayer money to the rich.
While I’d love to see the unredacted copy, the GOP would just deny the fact that he raped kids and continue to enable him. There would be likely zero consequences with the rigged judicial system and presidential immunity.
So now he’s gonna bomb some data centers?
Dont give me hope.
Normalizing declaring national emergencies perhaps?
Setting up the scapegoat for the inevitable collapse of the power-grid due to the data center build out.
You can’t be angry at the government if it was Canada’s fault. Now you have to support the invasion of Canada by candlelight or be considered an un-American communist sympathizer.
Damn Canadians!
Texas knows. We blame Abbott and the rest of the fuck head Republicans.
Epstein Files™ when?
Something something Roman citizen something something bridge never gets fixed
From headline, I thought he was backing away at AI datacenter first power delivery policy. My mistake. Just delay power expansions, and make sure rate payers pay for most expensive option.
I thought all those “infrastructure weeks” that donnie the dotard kept announcing would have restored all of the infrastructure, including the power grid?
What happened? Did Obama, Hillary, Biden and Kamala sneak in there and blow up all his beautiful infrastructure?
This is supposedly targetting China
Approximately 450 large Chinese power transformers (rated above 10,000 kVA) have been imported into the U.S. grid since 2006. Critically, over 360 of these are Large Power Transformers (LPTs) exceeding 100,000 kVA
There are significant orders from utilities to China for new Transformers. The US has a 2.5 year queue overall for transformer delivery, which would lengthen considerably, and the existing Chinese transformers would also need to be replaced.
The order is also designed to make utility solar more expensive, and delayed, for their inverter costs.
