Trump memo may accelerate AI use to streamline environmental permitting

President Trump has issued a memorandum directing federal agency heads to work with the White House Council on Environmental Quality on the use of advanced technologies to digitize and streamline the environmental permitting process, building on initiatives by the Biden administration as well as recent Trump actions promoting the use of artificial intelligence.

A central focus of Trump’s memo appears to be speeding the development of energy projects to power AI data centers, as part of a broader agenda for...