A ship is docked as the sun sets on November 16, 2023, at the Port of Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, Texas.A ship is docked as the sun sets on November 16, 2023, at the Port of Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, Texas.As the Biden administration scrambles to shield President Joe Biden’s climate legacy from Donald Trump in its waning days, the president-elect is staring down serious political dilemmas over the future of energy.
While not a forecast of future global energy markets, the report models various scenarios for U.S. LNG exports and urges caution when considering permits for large terminals where fracked gas is processed, liquefied and loaded onto ocean tankers.
Granholm is a Democrat and former attorney general of Michigan. Trump’s pick to lead the Energy Department, Chris Wright, is the CEO of a fossil fuel company who donated to Trump’s campaign andat the Energy Department’s analysis. Pointing to data showing that LNG exports create jobs, the U.S.
While the Biden administration attempted to slow LNG exports with the permitting pause and economic analysis, officials have not shown the same caution with AI data centers that house supercomputers used to crunch the massive amounts of data consumed by artificial intelligence programs. This requires“The natural gas industry is exploiting these events and even encouraging these events to simply make America and the world as addicted to natural gas as possible,” Slocum said.
The Biden administration has not specifically commented on the reported plan to open up public lands to AI data centers, and it remains unclear whether an executive order will be issued before Biden leaves office. In a statement tothe White House said the administration “is continuing to work with all stakeholders to ensure the U.S. leads the world in AI, and AI data centers are powered by clean energy without raising electricity costs for consumers.