2026-01-16
14 分钟Amid growing resistance to new data centers and fears of pricier electricity,
President Trump pushes tech companies to pay for new power plants.
Plus, sidelined by Washington, Canada's leader finds a friend in China.
We must be ambitious.
We must work at speed and scale to find new partners,
to diversify our trade and attract unprecedented levels of investment in our country.
And why potential U.S.
strikes on Iran might not help anti-regime protesters there.
It's Friday, January 16th.
I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News,
the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
In an unprecedented move,
the Trump administration is set to propose that America's largest grid operator, PJM,
hold an emergency auction in which tech companies would bid on 15-year contracts for new power plants.
That would effectively formalize a bring-your-own-power approach to data center construction that's already taken hold across much of the U.S.
and which the administration has begun to embrace.
In October,
Energy Secretary Chris Wright instructed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to draft rules giving it oversight of how giant data centers connect to the grid,
a process typically overseen by states.
Officials argue that the change could get data centers connected to the grid faster and easier,