"Trump’s order keeping an Orlando coal plant online renews environmental justice concerns over who pays AI’s pollution bill."
"The fight over Stanton Unit 1 illustrates how America's AI boom could prolong coal pollution that has historically fallen hardest on Black communities."
"For decades, research has shown that Black Americans are more likely than other groups to breathe the pollution produced by coal-fired power plants — a burden measured in higher rates of asthma, heart disease and other illnesses linked to dirty air.
Now, as the nation’s appetite for electricity surges to power artificial intelligence and massive data centers, the Trump administration is breathing new life into aging coal plants that many utilities had already planned to retire.
One of them is Stanton Unit 1 outside Orlando, where Earthjustice and its allies are challenging a federal order that keeps the nearly 40-year-old plant operating."
