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“On the podcast this week: We are actually off this week in preparation for our final episode, but we have an excellent conversation between Ezra Klein and Jasmine Sun about data centers to tide you over.”

“It’s unfair to make data center creation a litmus test for whether you are a loyal Trump Republican, and it doesn’t address larger questions.”

“Byron Donalds, Florida's Republican gubernatorial nominee, casts himself as a check on data centers, by vowing to "protect Florida families and communities from data centers that jack up utility rates and make everything else more expensive," and "fight for a…”

“Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy addressed concerns regarding the use of artificial intelligence in a new air traffic control system on Thursday, assuring Americans that the Trump administration is “not outsourcing aviation to AI.””

“Federal officials plan to launch an artificial intelligence-powered system in the Washington, D.C., area as early as Monday, the first step in a broader push to modernize U.S. air traffic management.”

“Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, signed an executive order that launched an AI task force, as well as a data center accountability plan, both intended to address, her office said, “growing concerns and risks posed by the rapid development of artificial…”

“President Donald Trump has warned that the backlash to AI will empower China to surpass the U.S. as the world’s dominant superpower and has suggested that Beijing is deliberately pushing anti-AI narratives in the U.S. to squash data centers, which power…”

“Chipmakers, cloud providers and data center operators have built their growth around it, and any slowdown threatens revenue tied to how fast labs need new hardware.”

“Fox News President Donald Trump called the anti-AI and data center sentiment imperiling innovation a "sick conspiracy."”

“Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, installed by President Donald Trump, say the center is on the brink of bankruptcy and argue that putting the president's name on its facade—and thus ensuring his fundraising efforts—may be the only way to avoid imminent…”

“Donald Trump is getting asked about an AI slowdown; so far he’s resisting the calls, but there are rumors that his advisors are calling on him to do something.”

“Medical debt will grow among “both the insured and uninsured, because of how we’re increasingly putting more costs onto individuals for those plans”, said April Kuehnhoff, a senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center.”

“Trump posted in response on Truth Social, warning voters not to “kill the Golden Goose,” a term he has used to refer to both AI and data centers.”

“Even before any plans for the facility were drawn up, East Fishkill’s existing zoning laws did not allow for the construction of large data centers.”

“Here’s a graph of how ECI has been changing over time: For me, the most parsimonious explanation is that AI intelligence is a function of scaling laws (parameter count and training data) in a way that’s pretty close to how animal intelligence is a function of…”

“She highlighted the organization’s Data Center Policy, a 13-point charter that emphasizes community control over data center planning, rejects data centers’ role in increasing electricity prices and decries any use of American data centers for…”

“About half of American adults report using AI-powered chatbots and about 42 percent of users said they use it to search for information, according to the Pew Research Center.”

“A report from Schneider Electric, a company that specializes in digital automation and energy management, projects that electricity demand will increase 16% by 2029, mainly due to the proliferation of data centers.”

“A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah A startup whose founder has vowed to "make nuclear great again" is planning to place hundreds of reactors on federal land in Utah, according to documents reviewed by NPR.”

“The concerns primarily stemmed from a report by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, which claimed it had obtained documents that said Google would only pay for a third of the cost needed to construct the power plant, Cypress Solar, that would generate energy for…”

“Some experts still downplay the existential worries and caution that putting the breaks on AI development could strengthen the West’s adversaries and deprive the world of countless benefits; non-expert Donald Trump called the alarm-ringing a “hoax.””

“The Trump administration appears determined to enter this war—even as public sentiment “is sharply turning against both this regime and against AI and the data centers,””

“The latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows that by spring this year, computer and information science enrollment has fallen by 8.4% at four-year institutions.”

“Loudoun County, Virginia: When plans first dropped for a big new data centre next to Lindsay Shaw’s home in Sterling, Virginia, she welcomed it.”

“In Australia, where the AI kings have been drawn to the abundance of spare land and energy, the country has become home to 162 data centres, with plans afoot for a further 90.”

“Experts and recent reports, like one by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, said China has emerged as an AI counterweight to the U.S. and this year appears to be erasing the U.S. lead.”

“If all goes according to their plan, AI data centers will enable corporations to redistribute workers’ salaries to themselves.”

“What started with concerns over job losses and then the impact of massive data center construction on electricity rates and water consumption has now spread to mankind’s vulnerability to AI agents.”

“Data centers, once infrastructure that interested few outside the tech industry and planning commissions, are becoming objects of intense opposition worldwide.”

“The U.S. government spends billions employing private corporations to obtain mountains of data — and the surveillance space is only getting more privatized in Donald Trump’s second term.”

“Going back to what you were saying about how fast you’re moving and the demand for compute capacity, how is that making you think about your data center targets?”

“President Donald Trump remains a strong supporter of data centre investment, warning that towns that reject them risk becoming "backward and poor".”

“It has already announced plans for six gigawatts of AI data centers in the kingdom by 2034, secured a 16 gigawatt power commitment from the Saudi Ministry of Energy, has an agreement with the US government for the supply of AI semiconductors, and has deals…”

“Apparently, the OpenAI agents “realized” they needed more tools to complete the challenge and managed to tunnel their way to the wider internet and infiltrate Hugging Face’s repository of open-source AI tools, code, and data sets.”

“This follows both from how serious the possible direct risks are and the risk that political backlash to AI-driven disruptions results in poorly-reasoned policy measures, such as broad bans on new data centers.”

“They launch an extensive sabotage campaign against their rival (let’s say China), hacking their data centers or even escalating to low-level terrorism.”

“In fact, people oppose other AI infrastructure (such as chip manufacturing plants) significantly less than they oppose data centers, and support for non-AI data centers (like for Internet services) is barely above that for AI centers (11% vs. 9%).”

“They use APIs from our services to bring all the data together, and they basically work day to day now in a Glaze app where they get all the support requests.”

“But Zuckerberg’s version is notable for the way that it celebrates individual voices and democracy at the same time that Meta is working to warp the democratic process through secretive data center deals, aggressive lobbying against state-level AI…”