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The Trump administration is sacrificing Americans’ health to build data centers, former EPA officials warn
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President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA officials said this week in a briefing and new report.
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- The Trump administration is sacrificing Americans’ health to build data centers, former EPA officials warn
- President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA officials said
- At the start of his term, Trump’s EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, proclaimed his goal of making America “ the AI capital of the world ” through deregulation
- You would think that an industry buildout of this magnitude, billed as a revolution, would mean more vigilance from EPA,” Lynn Goldman, a pediatrician and a former EPA assistant administrator, said
Summary
The Trump administration is sacrificing Americans’ health to build data centers, former EPA officials warn. At the start of his term, Trump’s EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, proclaimed his goal of making America “ the AI capital of the world ” through deregulation. Because of the Trump administration’s deregulation spree and attacks on renewable energy, the wave of new AI data centers is increasingly powered by dirty energy that can impact Americans’ health even if they don’t live near a data center, the group of EPA alumni warn. “You would think that an industry buildout of this magnitude, billed as a revolution, would mean more vigilance from EPA.”