Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness for Tech, Not Your Electric Car
This isn't about future-proofing America's tech leadership, or even about mining rare earth elements for your next iPhone. The Ambler Road project directly serves critical mineral extraction, specifically copper and cobalt, essential for the massive server farms powering generative AI models and—surprise, surprise—military applications. This isn't a new play; administrations from both parties
consistently label resource destruction as 'national interest' when it aligns with corporate profit or military-industrial needs. One might wonder if the same environmental urgency applied to preserving Gaza's olive groves were it not for strategic energy routes. Trump's consistency, at least, is commendable: always prioritizing industrial extraction over ecosystem preservation, especially when
the wilderness can't vote or donate to his Super PACs.