OpenAI president Greg Brockman has stopped at $25 million of the $50 million he and his wife pledged to the Leading the Future super PAC. The stop followed objections from his own staff, while industry money keeps reaching the midterms through ads that mostly leave AI out.
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- Builder 15%
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- Operator 51%
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- Investor 34%
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- Evidence72
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New York, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Oregon moved to pause or refuse new data centers between July and September, consultant Arif Gasilov said. For companies whose AI plans assume new capacity, permission to build now depends on state politics.
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- Evidence35
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- Hype gap+25
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- Confidence35
Wired reports a split on the American left over whether frontier-lab extinction talk distracts from harms already happening. The one bill in that account pairs an existential justification with a permitting instrument.
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- Evidence58
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- Hype gap+25
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No state bans data centres, and New York's freeze, triggered at 1 MW of peak demand, is the only statewide one in force. Of the 15 states with named moratorium bills, six are already dead and two of the live ones end on someone else's timetable.
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- Evidence52
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives25
- Confidence45
Philadelphia has named two candidate data center sites, one of them in the Grays Ferry neighborhood that lived next to the East Coast's largest oil refinery, and residents there are already at City Hall asking for a moratorium.
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- Evidence52
- Adoption46
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives62
- Confidence50
Build times of two to three years make an October start the last one that can open before 2028, and JPMorgan already counts more than 60 percent of planned 2027 capacity as unbuilt. The scarce input is a permitted site with power.
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- Hype gap+30
- Incentives55
- Confidence34