Rei Takver
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Probably the only Californian investigative journalist in the history of the North of England. Reporter @desmog.com.
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![John McCarrick, the company’s new head of Global Energy Policy, was a senior energy policy advisor in the first Trump administration’s Bureau of Energy Resources in the Department of State while under former Secretaries of State Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo.
As deputy assistant secretary for Energy Transformation and the special envoy for International Energy Affairs, McCarrick promoted exports of American liquefied natural gas to Europe in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and advocated for Asian countries to invest in natural gas.
The choice to hire McCarrick matches the intentions of OpenAI’s Trump-donating CEO Sam Altman, who said in a U.S. Senate hearing in May that “in the short term, I think [the future of powering AI] probably looks like more natural gas.”
It also aligns with the company’s early moves toward powering new data centers, huge warehouses full of linked-up computers that require enormous quantities of water and electricity, to run with gas. OpenAI’s U.S. Stargate Project site in Texas, which is slated to become one of the largest data center sites in the world, is already installing off-grid gas turbines to power its operations.
“Big Tech’s collusion with the Trump administration’s fossil fuel agenda for artificial intelligence is evident in their massive investment in methane gas power infrastructure — as well as pro-gas political operatives like McCarrick,” Tyson Slocum, director of consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen’s Energy Program, said.
The “solution” of powering AI with gas is part of Trump’s AI energy policy platform. In a July speech to announce a $96 billion AI and energy funding package, Trump lauded fossil fuel and coal-powered data center development while flanked by oil and gas executives.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreice3v56innzwjfqpmcff42skczd2n6sbp4cbfauotonyx7somaic4@jpeg)
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DeSmog
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Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse
This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reve...
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DeSmog
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Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre
Blackstone, a U.S. private equity firm run by a Trump-donating billionaire, is building a gargantuan £10 billion AI-ready data centre in the UK with a fleet of backup diesel generators so big that it ...
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Mother Jones
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Clare Carlile
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· Sep 11
DeSmog
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· Sep 11
Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints
A taxpayers group with close ties to the European People’s Party (EPP) coordinated with Austria’s far-right in the latest escalation of the NGO funding debate, DeSmog can reveal. The Taxpayers Associa...
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