| Contact: Kayla Ritchie | [email protected] In response to Trump’s latest artificial intelligence executive order, Mar Zepeda Salazar, Policy Director at the Climate Justice Alliance, a coalition representing nearly 100 frontline community-based and supporting networks across the country released the following statement: ‘The latest AI Executive Order is being couched in terms of US dominance, cybersecurity, and national competitiveness. But for the communities living near data centers, gas plants, and transmission corridors, the real story is the collateral damage that will be left in its wake because of what this order leaves out. No mandatory environmental review. No energy or water use disclosures. No Tribal consultation. No cumulative impact analysis. No legal protections for communities. Accelerated AI and data center infrastructure buildout will only raise our electricity bills, increase pressure for new fossil fuel plants, drain our water supplies, and expand polluting industry — disproportionately sited near rural, Black, Brown, Indigenous, and low-income communities. At a time when the climate crisis and public health emergencies continue to accelerate with little to no end in sight, we will continue to demand strong mandatory safeguards, licensing requirements, environmental protections, and community protections for the people of this country. Nothing less will do.’ The post The Real Story Behind Trump’s Latest AI executive order is what it leaves out appeared first on Climate Justice Alliance. |