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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin testifies before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

EPA webpage maps out path for data-center developers around air rules

The agency’s Clean Air Act Resource for Data Centers page includes a section on how AI data-center builders may be able to “legally avoid requirements” in the…
A sign on a rural road in Saline, Mich., opposes a planned $7 billion data center on southeast Michigan farm land. (Photo by: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Environmental groups to Congress: Take a timeout on AI data centers

More than 230 orgs urged lawmakers in a letter to enact a nationwide moratorium on the approval and construction of data centers amid soaring energy demand and…
Gas turbines are visible at an xAI data center in Memphis, Tenn., on April 25, 2025. (Photo by Brandon Dill for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Lawmakers eye liquid cooling tech to solve AI data center problems

A bipartisan, bicameral bill pushes for a GAO R&D assessment of the technology to help mitigate rising energy demands and costs associated with the building of data…
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Aerial shot of a data center for cryptocurrency mining, cloud services and AI computing in a large, temperature controlled warehouse in a remote location in Stutsman County, North Dakota. (Getty Images)

House bill targets rising rural utility costs from AI data centers

The bipartisan legislation calls for a study from the departments of Energy, Interior and Agriculture into the impact AI data centers are having on rural areas.
President Joe Biden discusses AI and other topics during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Oct. 2, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden issues last-minute order to advance AI infrastructure in US

The executive order focuses on collaboration with industry, advancing economic competitiveness, and building next-generation data centers to support AI.
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