Washington, July 24 (IANS) President Donald Trump said technology companies developing artificial intelligence must bear the cost of building the massive energy infrastructure needed to support the industry’s rapid expansion, arguing that the policy would protect American consumers from rising electricity bills while accelerating investment in the United States.Speaking at an event highlighting his administration’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge, Trump said soaring electricity demand from AI data c…
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Washington, July 24 (IANS) US President Donald Trump declared that the United States was well ahead of China in the global race to dominate artificial intelligence, arguing that rapid expansion of domestic energy infrastructure was essential to maintaining that lead while ensuring American consumers do not bear the cost of powering the AI revolution.Speaking at an event on the administration’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge, Trump said the explosive growth of AI would require more than double the c…
Washington, July 23 (IANS) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday reaffirmed the Trump administration’s commitment to Southeast Asia, announcing billions of dollars in strategic investments for the region while warning that Iran’s actions in the Strait of Hormuz posed a threat to global trade and freedom of navigation. Addressing the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference with the United States in Manila, Rubio said Washington viewed ASEAN as its primary mechanism for engagement in the Indo-Pa…
Washington, July 15 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has threatened to target Iran’s power plants and bridges next week unless Tehran returns to negotiations, saying American strikes would intensify over the coming days.“We’re going to hit them very hard tonight. We’re going to hit them very hard tomorrow night. We’re going to hit them very hard the night after, and then next week it gets really bad for them,” Trump told Fox News in an interview.Trump said energy infrastructure would…
New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Consumers expecting a reduction in petrol and diesel prices may have to wait longer, as Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday said there is no justification for lowering retail fuel prices at this stage.Addressing the issue of fuel pricing, Puri said petrol and diesel prices have remained largely stable despite significant fluctuations in global crude oil markets.He noted that petrol prices have increased by only 5.58 per cent over the p…
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday said India moved more than 12 LPG vessels through the Strait of Hormuz without paying any tolls and rapidly reconfigured refineries to increase cooking gas production, measures that helped the country navigate what he described as the largest energy disruption in modern history.Referring to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which he said lasted for nearly four months, Puri said the government took a series of emer…
Washington, June 26 (IANS) India joined the United States and 34 other countries in backing a new declaration on artificial intelligence as Washington expanded its Pax Silica partnership, a flagship initiative aimed at building trusted technology supply chains among like-minded economies. A Joint Statement on AI Opportunity, unveiled at the 2026 Pax Silica Summit hosted by the U.S. State Department, commits participating countries to a pro-growth, pro-innovation approach to artificial intelligen…
Srinagar, May 31 (IANS) Chairman-cum-Managing Director of NHPC, Bhupender Gupta, on Sunday successfully carried out the first blast for the construction of the 240-MW Uri-I Stage-II Hydro Electric Project in the Uri area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district.A major milestone for Jammu and Kashmir’s power sector was achieved with the successful execution of the first blast for the 240 MW Uri-I Stage-II Hydro Electric Project by NHPC Chairman-cum-Managing Director Bhupender Gupta on Sunday, m…
Ahmedabad, May 26 (IANS) Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) on Tuesday said it has commissioned a cumulative 3.37 gigawatt-hour (GWh) Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), the world’s largest single-location battery storage deployment outside China and among the fastest executed globally.The deployment includes the 1.37 GWh capacity commissioned in March 2026, taking AGEL’s total operational BESS capacity at Khavda, Gujarat to 3.37 GWh, the Adani Group company said in a statement. “Large-scale …
Guwahati, May 22 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said the state is steadily moving towards becoming a power surplus state with major investments being made to strengthen energy infrastructure and ensure reliable electricity supply. In a post on X, CM Sarma highlighted that Assam has set an energy infrastructure target of Rs 14,202 crore by 2035 and is currently implementing four major projects worth Rs 6,235 crore across the state.“Assam is steadily moving towards bec…