A new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey, conducted Aug. 20 through Sept. 1, found that 69% of respondents oppose the construction of AI data centers in their local area, with 45% say…
A Government Accountability Office report published Thursday found that the Secret Service recorded three drone incidents near protectees between 2015 and 2021 but changed no policy on civilian drone …
China is rapidly building data centers and energy infrastructure for AI, with Stanford's 2026 AI Index counting 5,427 U.S. data centers in 2025 versus 449 in China, but China's speed and scale of cons…
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has escalated his use of AI-generated content, including posting videos depicting fake military strikes on Iranian infrastructure, which his administration says are …
Mark Zuckerberg personally lobbied President Trump to oppose a White House proposal for a FINRA-style national AI regulator, arguing it would slow American model releases and benefit foreign rivals, a…
Maryland's top court ruled Thursday that a Democratic-backed congressional redistricting amendment must appear on the November ballot, reversing lower court rulings that had blocked it. The amendment,…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration now trusts Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei, reversing months of clashes after the company refused to allow its Claude AI models for domes…
During President Donald Trump's winter immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gave thousands of newly hired deportation officers access to ELITE, …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told President Donald Trump in a phone call the week of August 17 that a proposed national AI regulator was a flawed idea, according to a senior White House official. The prop…
A Government Accountability Office report released Thursday found that the U.S. Secret Service failed to document why it did not update protection policies after several drone incidents, including one…
State lawmakers have introduced at least 375 data center-related bills through July 15, more than the total from the previous three years combined, as communities push back over electricity costs, wat…
Republican candidates in at least five states, including Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, have adopted tougher rhetoric on data centers or proposed restrictions on their development, breaking fr…
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Washington on September 24, calling the upcoming summit 'very exciting' and boasting that the U.S. is 'leading China …
President Donald Trump's administration has cut federal offices and funding that protect autistic children, including the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, which investigates dis…
An Environmental Protection Agency proposal would eliminate a federal requirement that states notify the public and seek comment before issuing air pollution permits for data centers and other industr…
Texas Republicans, led by Governor Greg Abbott, are now calling for sweeping restrictions on data centers, reversing their previous pro-tech stance amid a populist backlash over affordability and loca…
A growing number of Republicans running in the 2026 midterm elections are distancing themselves from President Donald Trump's pro-data-center stance, according to Fox News, as polls show most American…
A Fox News poll found 70% of voters oppose building data centers in their communities to support AI, and a growing number of Republicans running in 2026 are distancing themselves from President Donald…
US President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday that the United States leads China in artificial intelligence 'very substantially' and called Chinese President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to Washington…
A new multimillion-dollar advertising campaign backed by Big Tech and the pro-AI super-PAC Leading the Future aims to counter growing public opposition to AI data centers, targeting battleground state…