potentially ending requirements for federal agencies to report on data-center efficiency, resilience, energy and water use, and contractor sustainability. ... signals that the Trump administration is set to take an even more hands-off approach to data center oversight and regulation.
Sounds like another case of if it's not measured, it doesn't happen, like when Trump said during COVID, "If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any." (Ignoring the obvious fact that they'd still exist, we just wouldn't know about them, noting that would have been better PR for him in the moment, but not so much in reality for the rest of us.)