Trump’s AI plan is a massive handout to gas and chemical companies
The Trump administration put out its vision for AI infrastructure in the US last week. It's a dream for the fossil fuel and chemical industries - and a nightmare for wind and solar energy and the environment.
An "AI Action Plan" and flurry of executive orders Donald Trump signed last week read like manifestos on making AI less "woke" and less regulated. They're packed with head-spinning proposals to erode bedrock environmental protections in the US, on top of incentives for companies to build out new data centers, power plants, pipelines, and computer chip factories as fast as they can.
It's a deregulation spree and a massive handout to ...