Tag: data_centers
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Wiener, elected to Pelosi's San Francisco seat, vows quick push for federal AI regulation
The California state senator, author of SB 1047 and SB 53, says he wants a seat on a congressional AI select committee and opposes broad federal preemption of state AI laws.
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Media Monitor: Cornell Chronicle Highlights Prison Education Program, Fish School Study and Data Center Energy Costs
The Cornell Chronicle reports a student club has helped secure the release of 42 incarcerated people since 2021, and a study finds fish species evolved schooling behavior 60 times in 350 million years.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports Data Center Backlash Is Rooted in Electricity Demands
MIT Technology Review reports from Virginia's Data Center Alley that opposition to AI data centers is driven more by electricity demands than by a broader culture war, as firms turn to onsite gas turbines.
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Fairfax County Board Backs State Push for Data Center Transparency
Fairfax County supervisors back a state initiative for more data center transparency, requesting a 120-day report on possible measures as residents seek a bigger say in local projects.
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NVTC Unveils Fall Event Slate, From AI and Hiring to Space Security
Northern Virginia Technology Council announces November and December events including MIT's Eric So on AI and thinking, a student tech hiring chat, data center talks and a Tech100 celebration.
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Media Monitor: FactCheck.org Identifies Common Themes in 2026 Midterm Messaging
FactCheck.org reviews the 2026 midterms, flagging distorted claims on inflation, Epstein, transgender issues, data centers and rural healthcare, plus a disputed Alaska Senate ballot and measles concerns.
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Media Monitor: Newsweek Marks 70 Years Since Suez Crisis, Draws Parallel to Strait of Hormuz Tensions
Newsweek marks the 70th anniversary of the Suez Crisis, drawing a parallel to current U.S. tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, and previews its coverage of Democrats' China policy and AI's midterm role.
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Democrats Sweep Texas Statewide Races as Talarico and Hinojosa Win
The victories end a three-decade Republican streak in Texas and put the state's fast-growing AI data center market in question, with Democrats also taking the Texas House for the first time in 24 years.
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Democrats Win Control of Congress in Historic Midterm Wave
Democrats took the House and Senate in the biggest Republican loss in half a century, with Senate results in Alaska and Mississippi still pending and the party's majority possibly reaching 54 to 56 seats.
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OpenAI Launches Grid Protectors Program to Ease Strain on U.S. Power Grid
OpenAI launches Grid Protectors, a national program to make future compute campuses cut electricity demand during grid strain, starting with a Georgia campus offering up to 1,000 megawatts of flexible demand.
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Heritage Foundation: Competition, Not Subsidies, Is the Answer to America's Affordability Crisis
The Heritage Foundation argues that unleashing competition and increasing supply, rather than more spending and regulation, is the real answer to America's affordability crisis.
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NVTC Lines Up AI, Space and Data Center Events for November and December
Northern Virginia Technology Council's upcoming calendar features AI hiring talks, an MIT professor on how AI changes thinking, a space resilience session and its Tech100 Celebration on Dec 15.
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Media Monitor: TIME Publishes Voter Guide as Early Voting Begins Ahead of Midterms
TIME is reporting that early voting has begun in the U.S. and it has published a guide answering 21 voter questions, while a reporter examined an Ohio revolt against data centers.
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Spanberger Touts Crackdown on Data Center Backup Generators on NBC Nightly News
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger told NBC Nightly News her Executive Order 22 will limit older diesel backup generators at data centers and make Virginia the first state to analyze their emissions.
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Fairfax County Board Backs State Push for Data Center Transparency
Fairfax County supervisors direct a report within 120 days on statewide efforts tied to the governor's data center executive order, as the county moves to protect local influence.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review reports solid-state transformers could ease grid strain
MIT Technology Review reports that solid-state transformers, still in development, could ease supply bottlenecks and power losses as electricity demand rises from EVs, data centers and solar.
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NVTC Cyber Summit to Explore 'Cyber at the Speed of AI' on Oct 28
Northern Virginia Technology Council's 2026 Cyber Summit & Cyber50 Awards will examine AI-driven risk with leaders from Google Cloud and federal agencies, alongside a fall slate of AI, space and data center events.
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Newsweek: About 53,000 Israelis Abroad Expected to Fly Home for October 27 Election
Trump says Elon Musk restored Ukraine's full Starlink access, and Google halted two Finland data center sites after clearing about 1,300 acres of forest before environmental assessments were complete.
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Ukraine Denies Starlink Speed Restoration as Russian Strikes Kill at Least Nine
Kyiv says the 161 km/h Starlink speed cap remains in place, as Finland pledges more than $336 million and Finnish firms plan a sovereign Ukrainian satellite system.
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Sierra Club Says Over 1 Million Comments Oppose Trump's Roadless Rule Repeal
Sierra Club says more than 1 million public comments oppose the Trump administration's plan to eliminate the Roadless Rule, which has protected nearly 59 million acres of national forests for 25 years.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Says Computing's Easy Gains Are Ending as Scaling Laws Stall
MIT Technology Review reports that decades of easy chip miniaturization have stalled, with major scaling laws slowing or ending, and that computing's true physical limits remain far off.
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NVTC Cyber Summit to Explore 'Cyber at the Speed of AI' on Oct 28
Northern Virginia Technology Council's 2026 Cyber Summit & Cyber50 Awards on Oct 28 will examine AI-driven risk and autonomous threats, alongside a fall slate of events on pitching, hiring and space security.
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Cornell Undergraduates Map PFAS Across More Than 300 Finger Lakes Waterways
The Chronicle also reports a $22.5 million NSF renewal for plant-human communication research, a Packard Fellowship for an applied physicist working on slidetronics, and a MacArthur Fellowship for a sociologist alumna studying climate change.
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Newsweek Reports Iranians' Deepening Economic Pain, Kansas Senate Race Tightening and Hyundai's $15.5bn India Bet
Iranian inflation eased slightly to 83.8 percent a year in September, while Democrat Adam Hamilton polls neck-and-neck with Republican Sen. Roger Marshall in a state that has not elected a Democrat to the Senate in 94 years.
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US Nuclear Operators Pursue Reactor Uprates as AI Electricity Demand Surges
Constellation plans to add nearly a gigawatt across 11 reactors at six plants, while the Energy Department awarded Vistra a $4.2 billion loan for upgrades at three plants.
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California Grid Meets Highest Power Demand in Four Years Without Emergency Measures
California's grid handled its highest electricity use in four years on September 9, 2026, backed by 39,000 megawatts of new clean energy and 23,000 megawatts of battery storage since 2019.
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Sierra Club Warns Data Center Growth Threatens Climate, Health and Energy Bills
The group says the 12 largest off-grid data centers under construction will emit more climate pollution than all the electricity used to power Florida and Pennsylvania, and it is hosting an Oct. 21 online action hour.
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Media Monitor: Newsweek Reports Brazil Runoff, Supreme Court Veterans Case and Andrew's Epstein-Linked Legal Challenge
Newsweek reports Brazil's presidential race heads to an October 25 runoff, the Supreme Court weighs a veterans benefits case, and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor challenges Epstein-linked search warrants.
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Spanberger Unveils 2026 Virginia Energy Plan Backed by First-Ever System Modeling
Governor Abigail Spanberger released the 2026 Virginia Energy Plan, pairing over 3,000 public survey responses with energy-system modeling to chart multiple paths to a net-zero power sector by 2050.
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Media Monitor: Senate Democrats Split on GOP Data Center Bill as U.S. Forces Leave Iraq
USA TODAY reports four Senate Democrats broke with party leadership to advance a GOP data center bill, while U.S. forces ended a two-decade presence at Iraq's Erbil Air Base.
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