President Donald Trump declared a national emergency Wednesday over foreign-made equipment that the White House warned could leave the nation’s power system vulnerable to sabotage and catastrophic disruption. Trump signed an executive order aimed at protecting “the security, integrity, and reliabili...
  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    19·
    13 天前

    Cancel massive renewable energy projects slated to bring in GW of new generation after billions have already been spent

    Start a war with Iran, making non renewables significantly more expensive to run

    Block data center regulations, allowing for massive spikes in electricity utilization and no requirement to generate their own power

    “Foreign actors are trying to cripple our power infrastructure”

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    13 天前

    Ooooh nice I guess we’re ramping up for the “election threats”

    What are the polymarket odds on this essentially being an inside job - either direct, or “oops we left the creds on an open S3 bucket, our bad”?

    • Dubiousx99@lemmy.world
      11·
      13 天前

      What are you trying to convey? This order has nothing to do with power generation, so fuel source is irrelevant. This appears to be related to power transmission facilities.

        • Dubiousx99@lemmy.world
          01·
          13 天前

          Did you read the order? It has nothing to do with power generation. The power source is not relevant to the order. This is for equipment that handles the transmission of power and how our grids coordinate with each other. Nothing to do with renewable energy.

          I do blame the numb nuts for this problem, but that is because he gutted the workforce responsible for cybersecurity, but not because of his stupid policies against renewable energy sources.