be real, they will just pay off the local officials to pass zoning laws to make it all legal. As they have done across the states.
be real, they will just pay off the local officials to pass zoning laws to make it all legal. As they have done across the states.
The environmental impact assessment requirement is a national law, and the national government is responsible for approving it. But since elections are coming and the issue has become controversial, the government coalition will happily ignore it and let administrators and judges sort it out. They have bigger things to worry about.
who is left at the EPA to review it?
The forest and Google datacenters in the article are not in the US.
Although we shouldn't forget that we can lose trees in the US in order to accommodate data centers too.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/03/29/portland-general-elec...
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chestnut-grove-...
This time, so take EPA equivalent in whatever jurisdiction. You’re nitpicking.
Finland is the second lowest-corruption country in the world.
https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025