前EPA官员警告：特朗普为AI数据中心放松污染监管
原标题：Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute
AI 摘要
前美国环保署（EPA）官员组成的独立组织 Environmental Protection Network 发布报告，指出特朗普政府为加速 AI 数据中心建设而放松环境监管，自 2025 年 1 月以来共推出 30 项加剧数据中心污染健康风险的联邦行动，其中 17 项明确涉及 AI 或数据中心。报告援引研究称，与 AI 相关的空气污染到 2028 年可能导致多达 1300 人过早死亡和超过 200 亿美元公共健康成本。前 EPA 官员呼吁政府采纳「数据中心健康保护承诺」，而 EPA 发言人则称相关行动是对《清洁空气法》的回归。
正文节选
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 a “Data Center Health Protection Pledge” to signal that the administration is taking the environmental threat seriously. Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute The Trump administration is sacri