During his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans’ concerns about rising electricity costs by claiming he had negotiated a “rate-payer protection commitment” with big tech companies that would allow them to build or pay for new power generation for their data centers. Leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, … Read more
Apple is launching new tools to comply with the growing number of age verification laws in the US and abroad. As part of the changes, Apple will block downloads of 18+-rated apps in Brazil, Australia and Singapore, while introducing additional features to comply with laws in the US states of Utah and Louisiana. The company … Read more
Trump’s deregulatory order aims to facilitate rapid construction of new data centers and the fossil fuel infrastructure to power them “The Trump administration is gutting health protections that are important to protecting children from toxins like mercury just to save the coal industry some money,” Nicholas Morales, a lawyer for the environmental nonprofit Earthjustice, said … Read more
The Trump administration has just removed a landmark finding that has underpinned federal regulations on planetary heating pollution since 2009. For nearly two decades, “endangerment findings” have empowered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Rather than rolling back these rules individually, the Trump administration … Read more