UK-based company planning to power AI in the US with wood-burning plant

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UK-based company planning to power AI in the US with wood-burning plant

A U.K. based renewable energy company is scouting locations in the U.S. to power artificial intelligence through a controversial method. The plan from Drax involves building plants that house wood-fired electricity generators in the Southeastern American Pine Belt. Over the years, the region has seen a number of pulp and paper mills close, leaving timber growers without buyers for trees that can't be used for making lumber or poles. Wood burning…