The Trump administration has widespread environmental regulations, making it easier to build a new generation of artificial intelligence data centers working with fossil fuels. This strategy pushes US climatic goals back, and of course, technology giants 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 giant executives such as Google and Exxonmobil, described his new outlook for the future of American energy. At the incident, compared to a “Festival of Love between Artificial Intelligence and Fossil Fuels”, he called Lee Zeldin, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “the most important man of the day” and joked that he could authorize the world’s largest power plant within a week. This joke, quickly joined the reality.
Just a few days later, the Trump administration exempts coal power plants and other pollutants from the strict rules of Biden to control air pollution.
Trump’s new policy for artificial intelligence data centers
These measures are part of a widespread strategy to reverse the previous government’s climatic policies. The Biden government had provided extensive tax incentives for the development 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 incentives 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 centers 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) pointed out and announced the reopening of an old coal power plant as a gas power plant to supply a new data center.
In this new strategy, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), once responsible for environmental 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 appointed appointed is implementing a widespread deregulation program.
The agency has completely destroyed its research and development arm by firing thousands. The government is also working on the cancellation of the “risk -making” of year 2; A law that allows EPA to oversee greenhouse gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Law. Also for projects that are considered “minor pollutants”, the participation and supervision of local communities will be minimized.
Two -way technology companies
This political turn has put technology giants 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 intelligence has greatly increased their thirst for energy.
The latest sustainability reports show that despite their investment in clean energy, their total greenhouse gases are still on the rise. Energy consultant at IEEFA says:
“There is no doubt that artificial intelligence has now led to more use of fossil fuels in the US and our backwardness in climate change. If technology companies really wanted 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 plants is still faster and cheaper, the need for electricity centers for two -hour data centers has led them to sustainable sources such as natural gas and nuclear energy. This trend, with full government support, could lock the United States for decades of dependence on fossil fuels, and the price of artificial intelligence progress is more pollution in the planet.
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