Protect the Climate from Unchecked AI: Stop the SANDBOX Act

Artificial intelligence shouldn’t mean artificial oversight.

Senator Ted Cruz and the Trump Administration are pushing the Strengthening Artificial Intelligence Normalization and Diffusion by Oversight and Experimentation Act — better known as the SANDBOX Act — to give corporations a blank check to sidestep the very laws that protect our air, water, and communities. In the race to expand AI and build massive data centers, this bill would let companies dodge cornerstone protections like the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and NEPA for up to ten years. That’s not innovation — it’s deregulation dressed up as progress.

Across the country, new AI data centers are popping up in both rural towns and city neighborhoods. And wherever they land, the story’s the same: air and noise pollution, sky-high energy and water use, higher electric bills, and rolling blackouts. The SANDBOX Act would silence community voices by cutting out public comment and handing power to a Washington office led by — no surprise — an AI industry insider.

Our health, our environment, and our right to have a say shouldn’t come second to corporate profits. Tell your Senators to oppose the SANDBOX Act and keep real guardrails in place for an AI future that works for people and the planet.

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Dear Senator,

As your constituent, I am writing to express my opposition to the SANDBOX Act and the American Artificial Intelligence Leadership and Uniformity Act (the AI Uniformity Act). These bills will allow companies to develop artificial intelligence technologies and infrastructure, such as data centers, without oversight of the impacts on public health and the environment.

The SANDBOX Act would give big tech companies the ability to be exempt from foundational environmental protections, such as the National Environmental Protection Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act.

This bill would have irreversible negative impacts on the health and well-being of everyday Americans for generations to come. It is the first step in cementing the Trump Administration’s AI Plan: an execution of the largest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the richest companies in the world.

I urge you to oppose the SANDBOX Act. Thank you for your time and dedication to finding policy solutions to AI and data center development, which allow communities to benefit from this new technology, rather than sacrifice their well-being for the sake of “America’s AI Dominance.”

Thank you for helping build a strong opposition against the SANDBOX Act.