Late last year I wrote an article for this website titled “What Has the Government Done to Our Cars” decrying the way decades of excessive regulations have changed America’s automobiles for the worse. Now, just months later, in what EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is billing “the single largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States,” the Donald Trump administration has killed the “endangerment finding” which allowed the EPA to regulate “greenhouse gasses” as a threat to human health due to the risk of “climate change.” On top of this, the administration has reduced MPG...

A recent article in Fortune speaks to a computer scientist named Andrew Chien who asserts that the new wave of OpenAI data centers will be consuming as much energy as New York City and San Diego combined when they are operating at full capacity during extreme weather. In different terms, this is 20% of the general electricity use of Texas, including the state’s quite large industrial capacity. Chien finds this “both exciting and alarming,” but overall seems joyful that computing will be taking up more energy. This is only OpenAI’s projects, and does not include everyone else in the artifical...