The New Republic - Tech magnates, including longtime Democratic Party donors, are starting to sound a lot more like reliably Republican-leaning fossil fuel executives. The New York Times noted this week that the billionaires who railed against Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement in 2017 have been silent about the same decision this time around, and have also said little about the president’s early-days attacks on everything from electric vehicles to renewable energy. So what changed?
A common denominator among the tech giants warming up to Trump is that they all have a lot to gain from his administration—and not just in the form of lower taxes. Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta all control cloud computing infrastructure that’s poised to benefit from the energy-intensive vision of AI development these developers are pushing
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