Former economic advisers from the Obama and Trump administrations have issued a roadmap for what they see as a way forward on future data center construction across America.
Democrat Robert Wolf and Republican Stephen Moore pitched a “bipartisan framework” to navigate the current controversies surrounding AI data centers in a report released last week.
They call for a middle ground approach based on federal guidelines that address five key areas, including ratepayer protection, energy security, environmental stewardship, transparency and community engagement, and local authority over land use.
“America should neither surrender data center development to a regulatory free-for-all nor freeze it through blanket moratoriums,” the advisers say….