Brutkey

BrianKrebs
@briankrebs@infosec.exchange

This administration's recently redoubled efforts to kill federal funding /approval for wind and solar projects would seem to be directly at odds with the tech industry's insatiable need for more power to feed AI. How is this not glaringly obvious to everyone, including reporters who write about these topics?

AA
@AAKL@infosec.exchange

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange The oil lobbies?

Don Marti
@dmarti@federate.social

@AAKL@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange The whole situation smells bad to me because of the national security side

It's hard to watch the news from Russia without getting worried about the vulnerability of oil and gas to hard-to-trace drone raids that would be within the budget of a college engineering project or affluent model airplane hobbyist—attacks that would be easy for a state-backed group

AA
@AAKL@infosec.exchange

@dmarti@federate.social @briankrebs@infosec.exchange We don't really know what deals were done under the table with these companies. Those who paid the $1 million dollar tithe are rewarded. And the oil lobbies paid more than most, to the tune of $445 million:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/big-oil-445m-trump-congress