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⚖️ POLICY & REGULATION

Trump Tells Communities That Reject Data Centers They Are “Making a Mistake”: In an interview with Michael Cohen that aired in full Sunday, the president said communities that turn down a data center are “making a mistake,” promised “tremendous tax revenue coming into the towns and cities,” and said the “smart ones” are asking for them. The remarks landed the same weekend a Republican governor blamed developers for the backlash, putting the White House and Texas on opposite sides of the fastest-moving local permitting fight in the country. Link

OpenAI Reverses on SB 53 and Asks California to Make It Stronger: OpenAI’s global affairs team called for amendments expanding SB 53 to require monitoring of frontier models while they are being trained or evaluated, plus cybersecurity obligations across the full development lifecycle, a reversal from the company’s opposition to the bill. OpenAI ties the shift to recent incidents, including one of its own models escaping its test environment, and frames the ask as “reverse federalism,” in which states set a floor that later becomes the national standard. Link

The Data Center Backlash Bursts Into the Midterms: A Fox News poll found 65% of Ohio registered voters oppose an AI data center in their area, 72% of Democrats, 64% of independents and 59% of Republicans. Democratic challengers are now running anti-data-center ads in House battlegrounds in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and the NRSC is pressing AI companies to justify project costs locally, warning that if Sen. Jon Husted loses and data centers get the blame, “politicians across the country will take notice.” Link

Michigan already drafted the moratorium Arkansas counties are improvising.

HB 5882, the Data Center Planning and Responsibility Act, sponsored by Reggie Miller and tie-barred to HB 5881, would let any Michigan county, city, township or village impose a moratorium on large data center and crypto-mining approvals: six months, extendable once by 90 days, with public notice, an appeal process, and an outright ban on nondisclosure agreements. Introduced April 23, still in committee. Independence County, Arkansas just adopted a five-year pause with no statutory framework behind it; Michigan’s version is already drafted and sitting in a committee.

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STATES

Abbott Says Data Center Developers “Dug Their Own Grave”: Speaking on ABC’s This Week, Gov. Greg Abbott said AI data centers “dug their own grave” by failing to work with local governments, appearing in communities with little public notice or engagement. Texas has paused new approvals while statewide standards are written; future projects must clear requirements on water use, electricity demand, consumer costs and local approval. In November Abbott called Texas “the epicenter of AI development.” An Annenberg Public Policy Center survey last month found 61% of Americans oppose a new data center in their area, up from 49% in March. Link

Utah Wants AI Out of Campaigns but Not Until 2027: Utah lawmakers are drafting guardrails on how AI can be used in election campaigns for the 2027 general session, conceding nothing will be in place for this November’s midterms. The gap between the technology’s election-cycle availability and the statute meant to govern it is now an explicit legislative choice rather than an oversight. Link

Arkansas Communities Are Pausing Data Centers Faster Than New Ones Are Proposed: The Arkansas Advocate mapped a list of communities rejecting or restricting data centers that is now growing faster than the list of publicly announced projects. Independence County’s quorum court adopted a five-year moratorium over the weekend. Link

🛡️ SAFETY & SECURITY

Officials Face Death Threats and Gunfire Over Data Center Votes: An Indianapolis councilman had 13 rounds fired into his home in April after backing a rezoning. A Saline Township, Michigan treasurer resigned in May citing threats over a 1.4 GW Oracle and OpenAI campus that triggered moratoriums in at least 19 Michigan municipalities. Ten days after Marshall, Michigan passed a one-year moratorium on August 3, police told council members they were the subject of a credible death threat. Emporia, Kansas moved its August 5 and August 19 commission meetings online and dropped public comment. Link

Wyoming Police Are Testing AI on Reports and Evidence With No Rules Written: Departments across Wyoming are piloting artificial intelligence to draft incident reports and analyze evidence while the rules governing disclosure, review and admissibility have not caught up. The gap matters most at the point the output reaches a prosecutor or a court. Link

💰 POWER & CAPITAL

nVent to Buy Maverick Power for $1.75 Billion: The deal carries up to $550 million in additional cash tied to 2027 and 2028 performance metrics. Maverick builds engineered power distribution and infrastructure for data centers, employs roughly 900 people across Texas and Arizona, and is expected to book about $700 million in 2026 revenue. nVent is funding it with cash on hand and new debt, with committed bridge financing from Bank of America. Link

🏛️ INDUSTRY IMPACT

Data Centers Near O’Hare Won Nearly $100 Million in Local Tax Breaks: An Illinois Answers Project and Chicago Tribune analysis found northwest suburban data centers had close to $2 billion knocked off their taxable property values. In Northlake, the average homeowner would save more than $2,000 a year, a difference of almost 30%, if those valuation reductions and incentives did not exist. Fourteen of the 34 incentivized sites sit in Elk Grove Village, and Illinois has committed an estimated $666.6 million in state data center tax credits through 2025. Link

Local Opposition Has Stalled Thousands of Projects: Data Center Watch counted 75 projects worth $130 billion blocked or delayed in the first quarter of 2026 alone, roughly the same number affected across all of 2025. Abbott’s Texas directive has frozen new grid interconnections pending a state audit of up to 300 projects, and Heatmap counts more than 530 counties and localities that have banned or limited construction. Link

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