Oh gee, if only there were some government agency intended to help protect industry from cybersecurity threats!

hmm. 35% of electricity comes from Canada. Threatens Canada with invasion and economic war. Wonders why the lights go out.

I wonder what's causing all this extra power drain.

Im sure it can't have anything to do with all the surveillance data centers being built to watch the masses every second of the day.

Its a good thing he spent all that money making sure no one could build wind power...

This is so fucking stupid.

This problem has been known for years. YEARS.

EV Charger Hacking Poses a ‘Catastrophic’ Risk — Wired Magazine, July 5, 2023

You know how they have effectively and efficiently handled problems like this in the past?
Well they don’t gut the fucking government, hamstringing the agencies responsible for ensuring the safety of these devices and of our cybersecurity as a whole, refuse to create rules over the equipment and infrastructure that protects our infrastructure, and then publicize that it’s a problem before any meaningful change has been made so that every fucking script kiddie and malcontent with AI tokens can try their hand at taking down a region’s power grid, let alone the state actors who have the resources to do it anyway.
They keep it quiet. Pass boring-ass rules and don’t say shit until they’re sure the threat has passed or has been sufficiently remediated.

Terrible fucking governance. They’re literally publicizing a way to conduct a terror attack against the U.S. before they have a plan to handle it.

^Which^ ^might^ ^be^ ^the^ ^point.^

It's been a national emergency ever since he slimed his way back into office.

I am old enough to remember when Obama proposed a series of initiatives to update the power grid, most of which were blocked by republicans on account of naughty naughty socialism.

The actual threat is hyperscale datacenters.

As for this, just a grift to find a way to funnel more money to his buddies so they don't have to pay to fix their systems and/or pocket money from taxpayers.

Every one of these is always a grift.

Shut the fuck up, Donnie.

Fucking stupid. The real danger to the grid is conservatives not letting us invest in infrastructure improvements

So fucking stupid bro. Do some fucking renewable energy then. Create jobs, energy independent, combat climate change

So how many national emergencies is this now? Seems like we have a new one every week…

So now he's gonna bomb some data centers?

Dookie Donnie does dumb shit — again.

Texas knows. We blame Abbott and the rest of the fuck head Republicans.

Epstein Files™ when?

Normalizing declaring national emergencies perhaps?

trump is a dumb pedophile. I love that the editor chose dozy donvict pic for the article.

Something something Roman citizen something something bridge never gets fixed

I thought all those "infrastructure weeks" that donnie the dotard kept announcing would have restored all of the infrastructure, including the power grid?

What happened? Did Obama, Hillary, Biden and Kamala sneak in there and blow up all his beautiful infrastructure?

From headline, I thought he was backing away at AI datacenter first power delivery policy. My mistake. Just delay power expansions, and make sure rate payers pay for most expensive option.

This is supposedly targetting China

Approximately 450 large Chinese power transformers (rated above 10,000 kVA) have been imported into the U.S. grid since 2006. Critically, over 360 of these are Large Power Transformers (LPTs) exceeding 100,000 kVA

There are significant orders from utilities to China for new Transformers. The US has a 2.5 year queue overall for transformer delivery, which would lengthen considerably, and the existing Chinese transformers would also need to be replaced.

The order is also designed to make utility solar more expensive, and delayed, for their inverter costs.

If the full text of this is “no Huawei anything anywhere in the grid” then I’m all for it.

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"

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”?

The emergency he created.

When will ICE be policing our neighborhoods?