When big infrastructure projects spring up, one crucial law — the National Environmental Policy Act — has for decades been a key way the government has required powerful industry interests to consider the environment and the public’s voice.

A number of the executive orders and announcements coming from the White House since Donald Trump returned to office have painted an ambitious vision for America’s AI future—crushing competition with China,

The goal of the plan is to win the global race in artificial intelligence. These AI data centers play a large role in that mission. The action plan announced last week calls for fast-tracking permits for new data centers and could loosen federal clean air and water protections in the process to accelerate growth.