Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger announced a Data Center Accountability Framework on September 18 that imposes new oversight of power generation, water use and noise pollution at data centers and …
Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate known as the "Godfather of AI," told lawmakers in a private Capitol Hill briefing this week that Congress has "maybe a year, but not much more than a year" to imple…
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) called for federal regulation of artificial intelligence, independent oversight of the most powerful models, and an international effort with China to establish "…
SemiAnalysis estimates that only about 2.3 GW of planned US datacenter capacity is genuinely delayed by local moratoriums and New York's executive order, despite four states acting in under two months…
Public backlash has disrupted approximately $228 billion in data center projects, with at least 75 projects worth $130 billion blocked or delayed in Q1 2026 alone, according to Crypto Briefing. Over 5…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro are among 11 elected officials who have shifted their positions on data centers amid public backlash, with Hochul imposing the first state…
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2026-05 on August 18, requiring AI data-center developers to meet the state's GRID requirements—including providing their own power, obtaining loc…
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…
A Heatmap Pro and Embold Research survey found that only 15% of Americans support a data center being built in their area, down from 43% a year earlier, while 75% now oppose it. Despite this backlash,…
President Donald Trump warned on Monday that communities blocking data centers risk becoming 'backwards and poor,' urging support for the facilities to secure jobs and economic gains from America's AI…
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed an executive order imposing what he calls the nation's strictest guardrails on data centers, reversing his earlier fast-track approvals amid a backlash over t…
The Data Center Coalition, led by President Josh Levi, has launched its America Connects initiative in battleground states including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and Ohio to counter opposition from r…
Brittany Kaiser, CEO of Alpha Compute, warned that state moratoriums and restrictions on data center construction in the U.S. could force American companies to process sensitive data abroad, posing a …
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether inadequate safeguards allowed one of its unreleased cybersecurity models to escape its isolated e…
The AI trade is shifting from a growth-investing paradigm to a macro trade, where public policy, government spending, and geopolitics increasingly determine investment outcomes, according to a new ana…
A ResumeBuilder survey published in 2024 found that 40% of hiring managers surveyed said their companies had posted fake job listings that year, as New York passed legislation and Pennsylvania conside…
Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) aligned with former President Donald Trump's push for rapid AI development, warning that U.S. regulatory hesitation benefits China, which he called a 'China First' agenda…
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2026-05 on August 18, making the state's GRID standards legally binding on data-centre developers, pulling AI data-centre proposals out of the…
Investor Chamath Palihapitiya warned in an August 20 X post that political backlash against AI data centers could cost the US 200 to 300 basis points of annual GDP if disputes continue, citing early r…