Former EPA staff counted 30 rollbacks around AI data centres.
The Environmental Protection Network published a report on 10 September about pollution from AI data centres. It counts at least 30 federal actions since January 2025 that weaken air protections around them. Separate academic modelling puts the yearly health bill at $11.7bn to $20.9bn by 2028.
Why it mattersElectricity for your chatbot is burned somewhere, and someone downwind breathes the result. The modelling points to roughly 1,300 early deaths and 600,000 asthma cases a year.
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