How Trump’s war on clean energy is making AI a bigger polluter

Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) and President Donald Trump during the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit astatine Carnegie Mellon University successful Pittsburgh connected July 15. | Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images

At an AI and fossil substance lovefest successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania past week, President Donald Trump - flanked by cabinet members and executives from large tech and vigor giants similar Google and ExxonMobil - said that "the astir important antheral of the day" was Environmental Protection Agency caput Lee Zeldin. "He's gonna get you a licence for the largest electrical producing works successful the satellite successful astir a week, would you say?" Trump said to chuckles successful the audience. Later that week, the Trump medication exempted coal-fired powerfulness plants, facilities that marque chemicals for semiconductor manufacturing, and certain different concern sites from Biden-era a …

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