Who gets to say no
The compute buildout now has a partisan fault line running through both parties at once — and separately, a fatal strike in Zaporizhzhia that Ukraine attributes to a drone with no human in the loop, running on a dev board you can buy on a resale market.
Axios: Abbott says data centers "dug their own grave" — the governor who called Texas the epicenter of AI development in November now wants an audit before anyone connects to the grid, and says fewer than ten percent of operators answered the state's power-demand request.
Axios: Trump says rejecting data centers is "a mistake" — the…
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