{"slug": "house-democrat-rein-in-data-centers-without-losing-tech-race-to-china", "title": "House Democrat: Rein in data centers without losing tech race to China", "summary": "Democratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (Va.) on Thursday pushed to rein in data centers in his district, a hotbed of such activity, while cautioning against losing the technology race to China. Subramanyam said, \"The reality is, if we want to grow and develop some of these emerging technologies like AI and others,\" the U.S. must balance regulation with competitiveness.", "body_md": "Democratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (Va.), whose own district lies in a hotbed of data center activity, pushed to rein them in on Thursday, but not enough where the U.S. would lose the technology race to China. “The reality is, if we want to grow and develop some of these emerging technologies like AI and others,…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/house-democrat-rein-in-data-centers-without-losing-tech-race-to-china", "canonical_source": "https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6042857-subramanyam-pushes-data-center-limits-ai/", "published_at": "2026-08-21 02:08:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-21 02:44:20.903721+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Suhas Subramanyam", "China"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/house-democrat-rein-in-data-centers-without-losing-tech-race-to-china", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/house-democrat-rein-in-data-centers-without-losing-tech-race-to-china.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/house-democrat-rein-in-data-centers-without-losing-tech-race-to-china.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/house-democrat-rein-in-data-centers-without-losing-tech-race-to-china.jsonld"}}