Don't let your political opinions get in the way of understanding what is happening around you.

> The increase in greenhouse gas emissions is attributable to a combination of a cool winter, the explosive growth of data centers and cryptocurrency mining and higher natural gas prices, according to the Rhodium Group, an independent research firm. Environmental policy rollbacks by President Donald Trump’s administration were not significant factors in the increase because they were only put in place this year, the study authors said.

And which administration made it policy to deregulate cryptocurrencies?

Presidents can influence if data centers get built. Trump's inaction with regard to data center construction was a choice.

An intentional choice of inaction raised pollution.

Don't let spin doctors letting politicians off the hook rob you of critical thinking.

There can be hardly be many that both commenced construction and went online in 2025 during his current term. Most that went online in 2025 will have commenced construction during the Biden administration.

Tom Cotton, (R) Arkansas is proposing a bill to shield households from increases in power costs in their region if datacenters are taking excessively in their grid sector. It *ALSO* allows for private power plants to bypass the EPA regulations public power grids are subject to.

So the argument is that Donald called his puppet Tom on the phone, spelling out to him a bill that once enacted will be sent 2 years back in time, causing it to have at least some effect on emissions in 2025.

I get it now. Thanks Donald.

Your first reply was insightful, but this one is not a thoughtful take.

Power consumption and emissions are already increasing, and any regulatory changes in 2025 are not factored in to discussion of those numbers. It’s more interesting to discuss what these changes mean when they are a factor in 2026 and on.

One can hope! Can we get national legislation please or is this just for Red States?

Nonetheless, natural-gas and electricity prices are downstream of the past three or four or five Administrations' worth of public policy choices. I live in a place where electricity prices have shot up and it has taken us eight years to build transmission lines up to Quebec so we can import cleaner, cheaper energy from them. Eight years and tomorrow it's finally done: https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/massachusetts-poised...

I would suggest you to consider how your holier than thou misunderstood bro-stoicism is doing exactly the same to your understanding of what’s actually going on.