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

Donald Trump aims to make the US the AI capital of the world while also being the global pollutant by getting rid of environmental protections and increasing the pollution by increasing the number of coal and gas plants.
Trump has claimed that “it costs much more to do things environmentally clean”, when Joe Biden had set a goal for the US to get all its electricity from carbon pollution-free sources.
A recent White House event saw big tech companies commit to using fossil fuels, with Enbridge investing $1 bn t oe x p an d i t s g a s p i p e l in es in t o P e nn sy l v aniaan d Eq u in ors p e n d in g$ 1.6bn to boost natural gas production.
Although most data centers are built close to renewable sources, it has been claimed that they are also time-efficient and more cost-effective.
Tech companies are seemingly ignoring environmental sustainability to meet their goals, with Google and Amazon’s greenhouse gas pollution still growing.

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