Musk: US tariffs pose challenges to solar power generation.

Elon Musk made a last-minute decision to make his first appearance at the Davos Forum on Thursday, where he criticized the United States' solar tariff policy and announced Tesla's ambitious goals - including launching a humanoid robot sales business next year, while also revealing that their autonomous driving technology is expected to receive approval in Europe in a few weeks. Musk's stance on renewable energy is at odds with Trump's. He stated that the US has the capability to meet all domestic electricity needs through solar power, including the increasing power demands of large tech companies' data centers. He added, "By using just a small portion of the land in Utah, Nevada, or New Mexico - which only accounts for a tiny percentage of the US land area - we can generate all the power needed in the entire country." "Unfortunately, the high tariff barriers in the solar energy field artificially inflate the economic costs of solar deployment," Musk said. Trump has openly criticized clean energy while encouraging oil giants to increase oil and natural gas extraction. He has frozen approvals for large onshore wind and solar projects, resulting in thousands of megawatts of generation capacity being stalled. With the US currently in urgent need of enough electricity to meet the surging energy demands driven by artificial intelligence, this move is undoubtedly at a crucial juncture.