Trump’s EPA Moves to Give Data Centers a Pass

The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would basically give data centers the ability to pollute as much as they want. The Environmental Protection Agency’s rule change, The Guardian reports, would remove the Clean Air Act requirement that data centers publicly disclose their air pollution, making the disclosures voluntary at the discretion of state and some local officials. But since many state and local governments have business agreements with data center companies, this would…