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The Republican Party has lost the local data center argument. The remedy it has chosen exposes a new kind of political dependency: the industry it freed now funds the politics of defending the buildout.
Gov. Josh Shapiro's Aug. 18 order ties Pennsylvania data center permits, a key sales-tax break, and grid curtailment priority to new energy, siting, workforce, and community standards.
AI cloud operator Nebius jumped 30%-plus after earnings the same week AI cloud firm CoreWeave locked in 2020-vintage Nvidia A100 chips through 2029, and an analyst argues $10T in idle capital just found a new home.
Cursor is now hosting code itself: Origin, an early-beta service that syncs two-way with GitHub, with launch partners including Vercel (preview deploys), Depot (builds), and Buildkite (CI).
Siemens and Reinhausen, the German power-transformer equipment maker, are jointly building a solid-state transformer — a compact, semiconductor-based alternative to traditional iron-core transformers — that delivers 800 V DC straight to GPU racks,
The Constitutional Council struck down the September ban on free-expression and privacy grounds, giving other EU courts a portable template to do the same.
Rick Manelius's 'AI;DR' (AI; Didn't Read) names the etiquette forming around senders who forward unedited AI prose. A self-described AI maximalist says he now flinches at it from people he respects.
Dane County's vote to drop the contract didn't just end its own license-plate camera program. It pulled data out of a shared network that agencies in three other states were using.
The grant targets the legal and practical barriers to information sharing between AI model developers, biosecurity experts, and safety researchers when an AI bioweapon is suspected.
Skyclarys, a €280,000 (~$300,000) drug for Friedreich's ataxia, sits outside Ireland's reimbursement, and Fine Gael met Biogen Aug 17 to push compassionate access (a free or reduced-cost supply from Biogen before public funding) before the HSE
750 gigawatts of U.S. battery projects sit in an interconnection queue — the multi-year waiting list to plug into the high-voltage grid — with a five-year median wait, and the binding constraint is hardware, not capital or technology.
A four-month fix on App Tracking Transparency prompts, monitored for seven years, gives every developer and regulator a portable test for whether a platform's consent dialog distorts choice.