The Aporia
The Aporia
11 articles about 10 events for “Trump's Data Center Plan” in Environment.
“"Pollution by forever chemicals, nuisance suits over AI data centers, opioids litigation, all of these are about the local effects of conduct that runs across borders,"”
“Trump on the docket The new term will feature more constitutional disputes over the power of the executive, with current or anticipated fights over immigration, federal bureaucracy reforms and possibly the White House ballroom and Kennedy Center construction…”
“This includes emissions data from facilities such as power plants, oil refineries, manufacturing plants, and more.”
“According to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center, the storm is forecast to make landfall in parts of the Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama and southern Mississippi late Friday or early Saturday.”
“This argument, however, clashes with the Trump administration’s own claims that the Clean Air Act does not give the EPA the authority to regulate emissions for vehicles and power plants – a claim affirmed by the agency as recently as last month.”
“In a modern five-story building in the center of Hamburg, Germany, technicians are preparing to install several new “racks”—gray metal casings that hold computing hardware—alongside the scores that already line the narrow, dimly lit corridors of the German…”
“There are currently 1,287 data centers in operation in the U.S., with more than 2,000 planned projects, according to Clearview, a market intelligence company tracking U.S. power infrastructure and data center development.”
“Trump called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” at a speech to the United Nations last year, and his administration withdrew the US — for the second time — from the 2015 Paris climate accord that sets voluntary goals to curb…”
“Even Wolff, whose two turbines sit at the eastern edge of the wind farm and are not visible from the town center, says county officials could have mitigated the Badger project’s visual impacts through more robust planning and zoning.”
“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said 38,000 ChatGPT queries use only as much water as it takes to produce a single almond – shrugging off widespread concerns over data centers’ water usage.”
“The EPA’s efforts to support data centers also extend to the power plants being built to supply energy to them.”