The Trump administration has widespread environmeal regulations, making it easier to build a new generation of artificial ielligence data ceers working with fossil fuels. This strategy pushes US climatic goals back, and of course, technology gias such as Google and Amazon, who promised a green future, have trapped in a big two way.
Last week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump, along with senior technology and energy gia executives such as Google and Exxonmobil, described his new outlook for the future of American energy. At the incide, compared to a “Festival of Love between Artificial Ielligence and Fossil Fuels”, he called Lee Zeldin, the new head of the Environmeal Protection Agency (EPA), “the most importa man of the day” and joked that he could authorize the world’s largest power pla within a week. This joke, quickly joined the reality.
Just a few days later, the Trump administration exempts coal power plas and other pollutas from the strict rules of Biden to corol air pollution.
Trump’s new policy for artificial ielligence data ceers
These measures are part of a widespread strategy to reverse the previous governme’s climatic policies. The Biden governme had provided extensive tax inceives for the developme of renewable energies such as the sun and the wind, with the “inflation reduction law, and had aimed to provide all US electricity from carbon -free resources. But the Trump administration has completely changed the route by canceling these inceives in its new budget bill. Analysis shows that this alone can lead to a decline 1 GB In the capacity to generate renewable energy by year 2.
“These new data ceers will not work with the wind,” Trump said in a speech repeating misleading claims about renewable energies. He proudly to the slogan of his campaign “Drill baby!” (Drill, Baby, Drill) poied out and announced the reopening of an old coal power pla as a gas power pla to supply a new data ceer.
In this new strategy, the Environmeal Protection Agency (EPA), once responsible for environmeal protection, has now become a tool to accelerate industrial projects. Lee Zeldin, the head of the agency with the slogan “Release of American Energy” The appoied appoied is implemeing a widespread deregulation program.
The agency has completely destroyed its research and developme arm by firing thousands. The governme is also working on the cancellation of the “risk -making” of year 2; A law that allows EPA to oversee greenhouse gases as pollutas under the Clean Air Law. Also for projects that are considered “minor pollutas”, the participation and supervision of local communities will be minimized.
Two -way technology companies
This political turn has put technology gias such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta in a very difficult position. These companies have all set ambitious climatic goals to reach the “zero carbon”, but at the same time, the explosive growth of artificial ielligence has greatly increased their thirst for energy.
The latest sustainability reports show that despite their investme in clean energy, their total greenhouse gases are still on the rise. Energy consulta at IEEFA says:
“There is no doubt that artificial ielligence has now led to more use of fossil fuels in the US and our backwardness in climate change. If technology companies really waed to achieve their sustainable goals, they could have done so. But it is clear that they have received a free permission from the Trump administration. “
While the construction of solar and wind power plas is still faster and cheaper, the need for electricity ceers for two -hour data ceers has led them to sustainable sources such as natural gas and nuclear energy. This trend, with full governme support, could lock the United States for decades of dependence on fossil fuels, and the price of artificial ielligence progress is more pollution in the planet.
