Author Archives: Tessa Zavala

Following up the late 2025 AI Executive Order, the White House has released a national AI framework. The highlights are: preempting state laws, empowering parents(sound familiar Texans???), protecting rate payers from electric rate increases, requiring data centers to bring their own power, permit AI to fair use of copyrights, and remove barriers to innovation. Tech […]

@Gizmodo wants us to know that a new WTO report warns that war on Iran will slow GDP to 2.5%, raise oil prices & fertilizer costs, and risks killing the AI boom.

Litigation is growing around AI as a root cause for actual humans being violent. This includes AI convincing a man that Ai was his sentient wife that convinced him to evade the FBI. Lawyers are investigating the ties between AI and global mass casualty events. Tech Crunch | Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of […]

We’ve talked about state investments in quantum computing and U.S. based quantum computing manufacturing. So, let’s talk quantum start ups. To transition from AI to quantum, meet “physical AI lab NestAI, and Qutwo, an AI startup aimed at helping companies prepare for the era of quantum computing.” Tech Crunch | Before quantum computing arrives, this startup wants […]

Remember when we talked about how companies in Japan retain older works with full compensation to serve as sources of wisdom and create stability. @MITSloan talks about 4 types of earned wisdom: the Steward, the Ambassador, the Futurist, and the Catalyst.

Welcome to carrot and stick data centers incentives. Pennsylvania will offer incentives for data centers if the project meets certain standards. “The governor has said he wants to prevent developers from negatively affecting energy prices and water supplies, make sure they don’t pollute the environment, and urge them to hire locally and be transparent with […]

It seems like days ago when we talked about Gov. DeSantis calling for the state to hold strong against data centers. House amendments to Senate Bill 484 now permit non disclosure agreements between governmental entities and data center developments. Developments would not need to be disclosed to near by residents. It’s one to watch. Tampa […]

Rhode Island is considering  H7957, that prohibits courts and government agencies from forcing someone to hand over a private key tied to these digital properties. Digital keys are used with crypto. Legislators want to protect the private keys like private property that requires due process. Rhode Island Current | Lawmakers consider bill that would keep […]

The Colorado Legislature is considering 2 competing data center regulation bills.  House Bill 1030 is a bill backed by data centers that would incentivize compliancee with state regulations in exchange for tax breaks. In contrast, Senate Bill 102 is backed by local community groups and contains no incentives, instead imposing regulations including complying with local water rules, […]

Yesterday the Dallas Federal Reserve announced that “Even a modest data center boom could substantially raise retail electricity prices and hence annual inflation. For example, under plausible assumptions about the data center build-out and utilization, annual PCE inflation in 2030 would increase by between 0.04 and 0.13 percentage points. Slower-than-expected growth of renewable energy sources—wind […]