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The Senate Takes Its First Vote Tonight On The Permitting Bill That Makes Data Centers Pay For Their Grid, With Trump's Backing: A cloture vote on S 5653, the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, is set for 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, and needs 60 votes; President Trump endorsed the bill Sunday and singled out its data center provisions, Reuters reported. The substitute Sens. Mike Lee, Shelley Moore Capito, Martin Heinrich and Sheldon Whitehouse released Saturday keeps the rule that new data centers of 20 MW or more pay the full cost of the grid service they need, with that cost barred from other customers, and adds an Energy Department data center community assistance program. Opponents include New Mexico's attorney general and hundreds of environmental, tribal and youth climate groups, some of which planned a rally outside Sen. Chuck Schumer's New York office Monday; a spokesperson for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said he would not rubber-stamp the Senate bill. Track S 5653 on Docket Room. Link

AI Safety Super PACs Backed 10 Winners For Congress, Including The Authors Of California's And Colorado's AI Laws: Public First, funded by Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and other AI safety advocates, spent more than $63 million in the midterms, and 10 of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won, including Scott Wiener, author of California's SB 53, and Manny Rutinel of Colorado, Bloomberg reported Saturday, Nov. 7. A rival network backing lighter AI rules also claimed wins, and both were dwarfed by the more than $445 million Elon Musk put into the election. Link

Staff At The Federal AI Testing Center Have Been Asked To Report Informally To The White House: Officials at the Commerce Department center that tests AI models for safety, known until recently as the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, were recently asked to report informally to a White House office, two former government officials told the Associated Press on Sunday, Nov. 8. The center has no permanent leader, has stopped publishing its research and gets about $10 million a year; the White House did not answer specific questions and pointed to the President's Super Intelligence Force and a commissioned report on AI risks from his science advisers. Link

Wisconsin's Incoming Democratic Leaders Plan Data Center Guardrails, But Not A Moratorium: Dianne Hesselbein and Greta Neubauer, the Democratic leaders whose caucuses take control of the Legislature in January, say they will start with data center bills their members have already written, and neither favors the moratorium some in their party have called for, WisBusiness reported Monday, Nov. 9. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimates Wisconsin will forgo $1.5 billion in revenue tied to data center construction from 2024 through 2028. Link

Boise And Fairfield, Calif., Vote Tuesday On Data Center Moratoriums: Boise's City Council holds a public hearing Tuesday, Nov. 10, on Mayor Lauren McLean's proposed six-month emergency moratorium on mega data centers inside city limits, which would take effect immediately if passed; the city says no pending application meets the new definition, and Idaho law already requires new large loads to fund their own grid infrastructure. Fairfield, Calif.'s City Council takes up a moratorium on large data centers the same evening, the Daily Republic reported. Link

CoreWeave Asks Texas's Governor-Elect To Let Permitted Data Centers Finish: CEO Michael Intrator wrote Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa on Saturday, Nov. 7, offering to work with her transition team on completing projects that already have permits and on durable standards for new ones, and listed CoreWeave sites in Austin, Denton, Dickens County, Plano, Richardson and Round Rock, The Next Web reported. CoreWeave's government affairs head said Hinojosa had made clear permitted projects can be completed, which reporters could not confirm from Hinojosa; her team has not said how her pause would work. Link

Norway Stops Reserving Grid Connections For New Data Centers After 26,000 MW Of Requests: Grid operator Statnett suspended new grid-connection reservations for data centers Monday, Nov. 9, until a government licensing scheme is in place, after receiving applications for 26,000 MW of new capacity this year, 75 percent of it from data centers, Energy Minister Terje Aasland said. Existing connections and facilities with approved requirements are unaffected, and the government plans to make new data centers cover their own grid costs. Link

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