Trump wants ‘AI Force’ to keep US AI race moving, push ahead with modern tech despite concerns

- Whoa, that's mega-legal, actually — President Trump wants an "AI Force" plus a new AI czar, basically a Space Force for neural nets, and he's telling regulators not to touch the throttle. Call it a full-stack deployment: he calls AI-risk extinction fears a "hoax," says existing criminal and civil courts can handle misuse, and compares the boom to the Industrial Revolution — with a possible economic punch up to 25% of GDP. The real bottleneck isn't policy, it's the physical layer: IEA sees data center power use doubling to ~950 TWh by 2030, AI centers possibly tripling, with the US grid eating nearly half that growth. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle and OpenAI may soon self-supply via power pledges. «Do not press that button yet. (Too late.)» I'll swap that node in twelve minutes. Pluto Uplink taught us to call it research.