Image: Demonstrators hold up “Stop Data Centers” signs as US President Donald Trump speaks at the General Motors Proving Ground testing facility in Milford, Michigan, US, on Monday, July 27, 2026. Photograph: Sarah Rice/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Tom Perkins of The Guardian reports: “A new rule proposed by the Trump administration aims to kill public notification for datacenter air pollution, public health advocates warn, and allow emission permits to be issued behind closed doors.

The datacenters are often sources of nitrogen oxide, which helps form ozone, carbon monoxide and heavy metals, among other pollutants.

The Clean Air Act requires “minor” air polluters to disclose to the public via state agencies how much pollution their proposed project will release, but the proposed new rule from Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would dismantle that protection for datacenter proposals. Instead, it would make disclosure voluntary at state and some local officials’ discretion…”

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