Artificial intelligence provides new opportunities to increase U.S. energy efficiency and production. Despite this potential, a movement is afoot to constrain AI over climate concerns.

As AI has become more prevalent, environmental groups and left-wing politicians have become hostile toward AI's development, claiming it will negatively impact the climate. A cabal of environmental groups recently released a fearmongering report warning of supposed “dangers” from energy used to support AI.

Democrats are already seizing on such reports to grow the size of government. Earlier this year, Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced legislation that would empower the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies to create a bureaucratic reporting system examining the environmental impacts of AI.

The Left's reflex to throttle AI with increased government regulation stands in contrast to the body of evidence showing innovation in the AI space will continue to increase energy efficiency........

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