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Amazon’s 3,000-acre data center in Wharton County, Texas moves forward despite Abbott’s data center “ban”An hour south of Houston, a 3,000-acre digital fortress is rising from farmland while the governor’s much-publicized data center ban dominates headlines. Regulators have approved Amazon’s campus near Boling in Wharton County, even though Gov. Greg Abbott announced his crackdown on Sept. 21. The order is a pause on new state permits, not a prohibition, […]
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DEFEND IP Legislation Seeks New Powers to Block Foreign Piracy WebsitesA new bill introduced in Congress would allow U.S. federal courts to issue site blocking orders that broadband providers and public domain name system resolvers would be required to execute, according to the bill text. The legislation, titled the Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property Act, or DEFEND IP,…
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AI Researcher Warns Machines May Already Be Developing Languages Humans Can’t Fully UnderstandAdvanced artificial intelligence models may be less than a year away from inventing and deploying unique languages that humans would struggle to understand, a frontier AI researcher told Congress on Sept. 30 [1]. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee convened a hearing examining the threat that “rogue” AI may pose to U.S.…
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New Report Reveals Data Center Backup Generators Pollute Like Power Plants, Endanger HealthFederal regulatory changes that eased enforcement of on-site backup generator emissions are contributing to increased health risks from data centers, according to a report released by the Environmental Protection Network (EPN), a nonprofit whose members are former public officials who maintain an interest in environmental policy. Air pollution from data…
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Testimony in Federal Defamation Lawsuit Raises Questions About Legality of Military COVIDTestimony in an ongoing federal defamation lawsuit is raising new questions about the legality of the U.S. military’s 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate, according to court filings and interview statements. The lawsuit was filed by Dr. Terry Adirim, former acting assistant secretary of defense for Health Affairs, against Ivan Raiklin, an attorney and retired…
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Pfizer Grants to Nonprofits Preceded Massachusetts Vaccine Exemption Lobbying LetterPfizer paid $500,000 to two nonprofits that later signed a June 1 letter urging Massachusetts lawmakers to advance House Bill 2554 (H.2554), according to the company’s fiscal year 2024 U.S. Medical, Scientific, Patient and Civic Organization Funding Report. The report lists a $400,000 payment to the American Society for Meningitis Prevention (ASMP) for…
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House Passes Bill Requiring Data Centers to Shoulder Their Own Energy CostsThe U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, Sept. 16, passed a Republican-backed measure that would require artificial intelligence (AI) and other data centers to make deals with local energy providers to cover the full incremental cost of generation, transmission or distribution upgrades, according to the Epoch Times [1]. The bill, known as the…
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FBI Director Defends Surveillance Partnerships at Senate Judiciary HearingFBI Director Kash Patel testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 15, 2026, defending the bureau’s access to license plate reader data and its expanding partnerships with private technology companies. The hearing, which lasted several hours, examined the FBI’s use of data collected by private companies and municipalities, queries conducted…
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Bill Gates Calls for International AI Regulation, Cites “Alien Intelligence” RiskMicrosoft co-founder Bill Gates said in a Reuters interview published Tuesday, Sept. 15, that no national government is adequately prepared for artificial intelligence (AI) and that an international body should be created to police the technology, according to ZeroHedge [1]. “I don’t think any government is nearly as deep on this as they have to […]
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