Fighting among each other in the Lanying network? Luo Tingwei’s random revision of the air pollution law, Jiang Wanan AI Technology Park suffered first

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan proposed the vision of relocating Songshan Airport and building a Taipei AI park.

Is the Blue Camp’s own-people policy going to attack its own people first? Kuomintang legislator Luo Tingwei and others proposed an amendment to the Air Pollution Prevention Law, requiring coal-fired units to retire early. Subcritical coal-fired units must eliminate coal consumption before the end of 2028, and ultra-supercritical units must retire before 2035. If the amendment is passed, it will impact four power plants including China Huo, Dalin, Linkou and Heping, affecting up to 9.72GW of electricity. The Ministry of Economic Affairs has warned that there may be a 4.7GW power supply gap in the Northeast Power Grid, and as the integration limit of the North-West Power Grid has been exceeded, the risk of power supply in Taipei City has increased. This also makes the AI ​​technology park actively planned by Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan of the Kuomintang a big question mark as to whether the new power consumption in the future can be guaranteed.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs pointed out on the 12th that if the Heping Power Plant is decommissioned early, the power supply gap in the Northeast region will be as high as 4.7GW, exceeding the 4.2GW integration limit of the Northwest Power Grid, increasing the risk of power supply in Taipei City, Keelung City, Yilan County and the area east of Banqiao, New Taipei City. In other words, the impact of this amendment may not be limited to power plants in the central and southern parts of the country, but the power supply in the north may also be affected.

In particular, Taipei City has actively promoted the layout of AI and technology industries in recent years. Jiang Wanan has promoted AI technology parks, hoping to introduce AI, semiconductor and related technology companies to drive the city's industrial transformation. However, AI data centers and high-tech industries are highly power-consuming industries. If the existing power supply capacity of the Northeast Power Grid faces a gap, the power demand of new industries in the future will inevitably face greater challenges. When the city government actively attracts investment and strives for the entry of AI industry, whether the power supply can be synchronized will also become an important key to the development of the park.

Not only the north, but Taichung is also facing power supply pressure. Taipower pointed out that in recent years, high-tech manufacturers such as TSMC, Micron, and Silicon Products have invested heavily in key advanced processes and factory expansion plans in Taichung, and future power demand will show explosive growth. If the power grid cannot even bear the current load, the power applications of major technology factories may be forced to re-evaluate, impacting the industrial competitiveness of Taichung and even Taiwan.

Chiang Wanan has called for building Taipei's AI capital and seeking the presence of Huida and major technology companies, but legislators from the same party are pushing for amendments to the air pollution law that may increase the risk of power supply in the Northeast power grid. Is the blue camp's energy policy contradictory? In addition to land and enterprises, the AI ​​park must also have electricity. Otherwise, no matter how big the industrial vision is, it will be stuck in power supply.