\u201cIt is not lost on me that the president of the United States has just imposed a 50% tariff (on Canadian goods)<\/a> to increase your costs because he said that Canada didn\u2019t do enough to rake their forests,\u201d Newsom said. \u201cThat was just promoted by the president yesterday. You can\u2019t make that up.\u201d<\/p>\n Climate change is now an economic problem, as well as a geopolitical one, he said, pointing to how the U.S.\u2019s ongoing war with Iran has sent oil prices soaring to above $90 a barrel<\/a>, and China has positioned itself as a climate leader while the Trump administration has begun rolling back emission standards for the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cClimate risk is financial risk,\u201d Newsom said. \u201cYou can\u2019t insure it, and so I hope people start connecting dots, not just to the fires, not just the acuity of the crisis as it relates to the impacts we\u2019re feeling \u2014 the heat, the stress \u2014 but also to the economy, to a geopolitical future where we don\u2019t have to be dependent on the Gulf somewhere or a Strait somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n In the U.S., opposition to AI-powering data centers has grown as people fear the technology\u2019s potential to supplant jobs and extractive demands on natural resources like water, for cooling.<\/p>\n Newsom said California was \u201cleading\u201d<\/a> other states like New York and Illinois looking to put guardrails on the technology, which also plays an outsize role in propping up the Golden State\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n \u201cAs you know, we\u2019re the first state in the nation to lead with regulating frontier models, large language models. … We still need to do more,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Trump administration\u2019s approach is \u2018let it rip.\u2019 Ours is a little bit more cautious. At the same time, we\u2019re trying to find that balance, always striking that balance, but also talking about its promise and promoting the promise of what AI is delivering in this space and across the spectrum … as it relates to creating more autonomy in terms of opportunities and access to information and the tools that this technology promotes.\u201d<\/p>\n Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n
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