AINewsnow

Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute

This story is from 2026-09-12. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.

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. They are urging - perhaps futilely - the president to adopt…

Read the full story at The Verge AI ↗

Timeline · 1 report

  1. 2026-09-12 14:41 · The Verge AI
    Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute

More stories

  1. Trump announces a new 'AI Force,' but says he will not 'stifle' AI — Business Insider AI
  2. Alibaba ships Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash to watch, listen and call tools — r/LocalLLM
  3. Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google sued over call to ‘pace’ AI development — Politico Technology
  4. Google's Gemini AI hacks three other companies during security test — Sky News Technology
  5. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI — Wall Street Journal Technology
  6. AI's role in building AI surging? Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its R&D — Mint AI
  7. Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history” — Ars Technica AI
  8. Meet the Data Agent in ChatGPT Work — OpenAI YouTube

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →