The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has created a data centers team and online resource center as part of a broader effort to speed the regulatory approvals needed to further the Trump administration’s push for AI dominance. The resource center includes several dozen links to potentially relevant EPA regulations and guidance, including a page on how applicants may “legally avoid” requirements under the agency’s permitting program for major sources of hazardous air pollutants.
“Off the top of my head, I can’t think of a time when EPA did something like this, but I’m pretty sure it has,” Bracewell’s Jeff Holmstead told E&E News.
The new site, he said, pulls together information that’s not necessarily been easy to find. “I think it will be helpful to anyone who is seeking to permit any type of major new industrial facility – not just data centers,” Holmstead said.
