The AI boom needs power and rockets. Trump just exempted both from environmental law.
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Exempting data centers from acid-rain rules and rocket launches from environmental review trades long-term ecological risk for short-term AI and space capacity. Infra planners now face a sharper tension between speed and sustainability—communities and global regulators may respond with their own constraints.
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