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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Andy Rowell and Nina Lakhani

Revealed: Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and green rollbacks

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Kelcy Warren, the chair and chief executive officer of Energy Transfer, has been a major Republican donor since 2016. Photograph: Getty Images

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.

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