AI Infrastructure Emerges As Key Focus For Federal Environment Policy

Accelerating the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure is emerging as a key focus for federal environmental policy, including Congress, the Trump EPA and industry stakeholders -- a focus which implicates a wide array of EPA programs, including energy and air rules, permitting, environmental cleanups and water reuse. Making the United States “the artificial intelligence capital of the world” is among Administrator Lee Zeldin’s five “pillars” guiding his tenure at the agency. An EPA spokesperson tells Inside EPA that many...