"While filming our PBS documentary on🚨#OpenAI's #Stargate project, we noticed something strange in the permit records.
So we kept digging.
The result is this new investigation with WIRED into the🚨regulatory loophole helping fuel #Texas' #AI boom."
-Floodlight
"Texas regulators🚨are allowing AI data centers across the state to start up 1000s of new #pollution sources with no public notice or environmental reviews."
#DataCenters #Environment #Deregulation #Climate #USPol
https://floodlightnews.org/ai-data-centers-texas-pollution-loophole/
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