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Firm: Trump Must Act to Enable Nuclear, Data Center Development

Believes FERC currently poses too many regulatory hurdles

Blake Ledbetter

Feb 20, 2025 — 2 min read

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2025 – Legal analysts suggest that current legislation may need to be streamlined to ensure a more efficient energy supply for data centers.

Mark Perlis and Eva Dorrough, two environmental attorneys at multinational law firm Covington & Burling LLP., released a two-part article detailing the Trump Administration's path to achieving rapid energy development, specifically through nuclear generation.

The lawyers said that current nuclear regulations are too complex and slow, and cannot sustain the rapid growth of data centers that Trump hopes for in plans like Project Stargate, an up to $500 billion investment in AI infrastructure signed by Trump in January.

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