Revealed: Trumps fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and green rollbacks

Oil and gas barons who donated millions of dollars to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign are on the cusp of cashing in on the administration’s support for energy-guzzling data centers – and a slew of unprecedented environmental rollbacks. Energy Transfer, the oil and gas transport company behind the Dakota Access pipeline, has received requests to power 70 new data centers – a 75% rise since Trump took office, according to a new investigation by the advocacy non-profit Oil Change International (OCI) and the Guardian. The fossil-fuel gold rush threatens to unleash massive amounts of pollution and greenhouse gases while undermining the

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