San Francisco’s board of supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to impose a 45-day moratorium on new data centers, a pause that can be extended up to 22 months. Despite San Francisco being the home of AI development in the United States, one city official said of data centers, “We need to know what these impacts are. Until we know what that is, it needs to stop.”
Finland’s Licensing and Supervision Agency has ordered Google to stop clearing massive forests for two data center projects until environmental impact assessments are completed.
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) responded to a question on whether it was a mistake for Senate Democrats to block the Ratepayer Protection Act that she, along with 205 other House Democrats voted for,
Moreno spoke about Democrats blocking Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-OH) Ratepayer Protection Act ahead of the midterm elections during a Breitbart News Fight Club Roundtable hosted by Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle.
Amazon announced Friday it will invest more than $1 billion over the next five years in communities that host its data centers across the United States.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) said that Senate Democrats are blocking the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed the House 417-3, because of “politics that are coming into play.” And if it were up to
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) responded to Senate Democrats blocking the Ratepayer Protection Act by characterizing the legislation, which she, along with 205 other House Democrats, voted for two weeks prior as “too little,
Innovation Council Action Director of Government Affairs Nicholas Elliot said Wednesday that Senate Democrats voted to push rising electricity costs onto American families after the chamber blocked the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) argued for a national data center moratorium until certain conditions are met and said that, among Democrats, “I think we’re all pretty much there, that we want to see
A developer trying to build a massive data center near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, is offering nearby households $10,000 checks if the project gets approved.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed on Monday that opposition to data centers is “coming from China.”
Taxpayers would be held harmless from large electricity users, such as data centers, under legislation backed by Ohio Republican Sen. Jon Husted, with voting possibly as early as this week. The legislation already received overwhelming support in the U.S. House of Representatives, where just three members of Congress opposed its passage.
Sen. Dave McCormick says China and Russia are running a campaign to turn Americans against AI and data centers.
Louisiana Congressional candidate Stephen Wagley said that voters’ concerns about AI data center development are “very valid” and added that officials owe them transparency.
Google is preparing to launch a satellite carrying its AI chips into orbit, part of an early test of whether space could someday host AI data centers.
Oracle Corp. has sent a force majeure notice to a unit of Blue Owl Capital over Project Jupiter, the New Mexico data center at the center of the Stargate AI build-out. This contractual clause is invoked when a company believes that unavoidable events will delay completion of the work, which seems to be Oracle’s opinion of its troubled data center project.
The AI boom is on track to become the largest single-industry infrastructure buildout in more than a century, according to new estimates published by the Brookings Institution.
Incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar’s (D-TX) campaign and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee are facing criticism from Republican candidate Tano Tijerina’s campaign over a new advertisement, which Tijerina’s campaign says misrepresents his comments and makes a false claim about a proposed data center tied to his wife’s family.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has ordered a halt to all environmental permits tied to data center construction, deepening a pause on the AI industry that has sought to grow throughout the state.
On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Wake Up America Early,” Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) said that “We absolutely should be worried about” AI warnings, there are warnings from “really smart people, not people with political proclivities that are pushing one
Researchers have revealed that 45 data center projects worth $68 billion were blocked or delayed by local pushback across the United States between April and June.
Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang rejected warnings that AI could wipe out humanity within years, calling such predictions unscientific and irresponsible in an interview with CBS News.
During Saturday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Life, Liberty & Levin,” host Mark Levin weighed in on concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers, some of which bordered on hysteria.
Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-OH) effort to unanimously pass a bill that would urge states to consider forcing tech companies to cover increased electricity costs associated with data centers was blocked by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), with the Democrat arguing that the legislation does not go far enough.
The House voted 417-3 this week to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act, the first major bill on how data centers behind the AI boom affect utility customers’ bills to make it through Congress. Squad member Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was one of only three Democrats to oppose the bill.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has directed the Texas Water Development Board to penalize data centers that fail to report their water usage, after state records showed most facilities have ignored the mandatory survey for years.
President Donald Trump’s longtime pollster Tony Fabrizio sent Republican candidates a memo Monday laying out how to counter Democrat attacks over artificial intelligence data centers.
President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) destroying humanity as a “hoax” and argued that strict regulations would put American companies at a disadvantage against China.
Woodford County in Kentucky has enacted a permanent, outright ban on data center development, following a Fiscal Court vote coordinated with the local governments of Midway and Versailles.
Local municipalities should be in control of whether data centers are built in their communities as the United States works to beat China in the AI arms race, Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) told Breitbart News.
More than a decade ago, Ohio lawmakers exempted tech companies from paying sales tax on the computer servers and equipment that fill data centers. That break has since ballooned into one of the state’s most expensive. Now, Ohio joins a parade of states rethinking the sweetheart deals they gave Silicon Valley giants.
A new poll finds that even as more Americans turn to AI tools in their daily lives, most remain deeply uneasy about where the technology is taking the country. An overwhelming 69 percent of respondents oppose AI data centers being built in their area.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. must maintain its lead over China in AI while urging AI companies to better address data center concerns.
The Trump administration is tightening scrutiny of Chinese-made equipment that powers America’s data centers, citing national security risks as demand for electricity to run AI systems surges.
Louisiana congressional candidate Stephen Wagley said Saturday that career politicians have let data centers and Flock surveillance cameras expand without oversight.
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin described a plan on Thursday to build networks of data storage and processing centers in the country’s Arctic, alongside “small nuclear power plants” developed to feed the data centers energy.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) defended the state’s data center moratorium and responded to a question on if there is a danger of falling behind China on AI by
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called on artificial intelligence (AI) and data center companies to improve their messaging in comments at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, saying they, “Have done a horrendous job of explaining themselves to the American people.”
A $100 billion data center complex planned to be built near the Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia has effectively been canceled after residents spent five years fighting it in courtrooms, newspapers and town halls.
A new poll from the Beacon Center in Tennessee finds Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn is well on her way to the Governor’s Mansion in two months. Blackburn leads Democrat Jerri Green in the race to succeed two-term Gov. Bill Lee, with a 55 percent to 34 percent margin among likely voters in the Volunteer State.
