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Gates Pitches “Human Reserved” Jobs and a Tax on Tokens and Robots: In an Axios interview published Wednesday, the Microsoft co-founder proposed carving out categories of work machines could do but that policy keeps for people, childcare and jury service outright, education and healthcare partly, plus temporary protection for workers too far into a career to retrain. He paired it with a tax on AI tokens and robots on the argument that current tax rules give employers a financial reason to swap staff for machines, calling it “a change to the tax system that’s greater than any in my lifetime.” Link

EPA Moves to Strip Public Notice From Data Center Air Permits: The agency’s proposal would erase the federal minimum, in place more than 50 years, requiring states to publish draft permits and take at least 30 days of comment on Clean Air Act minor new source review permits, the category that covers the tractor-trailer-sized diesel generator banks data centers install. Each state would decide whether, when and for how long the public gets to comment at all. Comments closed August 21 under Docket EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-1212; on August 24 a coalition of nearly 200 environmental, health and community groups filed to demand withdrawal, citing roughly 50 permits that public input measurably strengthened with added pollution controls and monitoring. Link

Australia Bars Fully AI-Generated Tracks From Its Official Charts: ARIA amended its Charts Code of Practice Tuesday: starting Friday, August 29, a recording qualifies only if it is “substantially human-made” and raises no stream or chart manipulation concerns. AI-assisted work still charts. The rules follow principles the London-based IFPI issued in July, and the immediate peg is an AI-vocal variation of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” that spent 16 weeks in the Australian top 20 and peaked at No. 2. Link

Vasquez Signs On to Two Federal Data Center Bills as New Mexico Projects Stall: Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) cosponsored the FAIR Data Act, sponsored by Rep. Josh Riley (D-N.Y.), which targets electricity price increases passed to consumers, and the Data Center Water and Energy Transparency Act of 2026, HR 9825, sponsored by Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.), which would require large data centers to report annual energy and water use to states or EPA. “If you want to do business here, you need to be transparent, listen to local residents,” Vasquez said. Both bills sit in committee. Link

Alabama’s Counties Ask the Legislature for Zoning Power They Don’t Have: Members of the Association of County Commissions of Alabama unanimously adopted a resolution at the group’s annual business session asking lawmakers to formally recognize county planning and zoning authority over unincorporated land. The point is jurisdictional, not rhetorical: “County commissioners cannot assume any power not specifically granted by the Legislature,” executive director Sonny Brasfield said, which is why most Alabama counties cannot pass the moratoriums county boards in Iowa and North Carolina are passing. Roughly 150 Lowndes County residents filled the courthouse Monday over a proposed $1.5 billion hyperscale campus. Link

Savannah Votes Thursday on a 155-Day Data Center Moratorium: A public hearing and ordinance adoption are both on the council’s Thursday agenda; passage blocks new large-scale data center development inside the city for 155 days while officials draft a permanent policy. Mayor Van Johnson says companies have already approached the city and that large-scale facilities do not belong in Savannah. Coastal Georgia neighbors including Bloomingdale have already adopted their own moratoriums. Link

San Antonio Leans Toward a Code Rewrite Instead of a Pause: Most council members backed regulating data centers through the Unified Development Code at Tuesday’s discussion, the route city staff recommended. Staff told council a building permit moratorium would run only 90 to 180 days, take until at least year-end to enact, exempt anything already underway, and exempt any project already in utility service negotiations, at least 12 in San Antonio. District 6 Councilmember Ric Galvan, joined by Teri Castillo and Ivalis Meza Gonzalez, filed a three-signature memo seeking a special meeting by August 31 to pause new applications for three to six months anyway. Link

New Mexico’s Supreme Court Freezes Project Jupiter’s Permitting on Two Fronts: The justices unanimously granted two stay requests late Sunday against the Oracle and OpenAI campus under construction in Doña Ana County: they halted the Environment Department’s air quality hearing on the project’s natural gas fuel cell system, set for September 14 in Sunland Park, and ordered the Office of the State Engineer to stop allowing a specific well to supply construction water. Santa Fe-based New Energy Economy argued the department cannot hold a permit hearing before the project’s fuel source is established. Parties have until September 2 to respond. Link

Kentucky Regulators Clear 482 MW for TeraWulf’s Anthropic Campus: The Public Service Commission approved the retail electric service agreement in case 2026-00115 on August 21, covering up to 482 megawatts for the Justified Data Campus at the former Century Aluminum smelter in Hancock County, where that transmission capacity was stranded when the smelter closed. TeraWulf carries market, transmission, delivery and infrastructure costs plus credit-support obligations, with negotiated demand adders and customer charges flowing to Big Rivers Electric and Kenergy. Anthropic is the campus’s primary user under a 20-year agreement. Link

Emmet County, Iowa, Adopts a One-Year Moratorium Before Anyone Asks: The board of supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday for a one-year pause on data centers, citing health, water and energy questions. No developer has inquired about the northwest Iowa county; supervisors said they want rules written before a proposal arrives rather than after. It lands the same week a central Iowa city passed its own. Link

Anthropic Will Pitch IPO Investors a $30 Trillion Market: The company is expected to tell investors its total addressable market exceeds $30 trillion, above the $28.5 trillion SpaceX has used, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. That is a whole-economy figure, the annual revenue if AI captured every task it could perform, not a revenue forecast. Anthropic is targeting roughly a $2 trillion valuation and a raise of as much as $100 billion, with prospectus documents expected shortly and a debut possible as early as September or October. Link

OpenAI Loses Its Data Center Chief: Chris Malone, who joined from Meta in March 2025 to run data centers and helped shape the roughly $600 billion compute plan through 2030, is out. OpenAI says it “recently reorganized” its infrastructure organization and that the function no longer sits where it did when he arrived. Reports count 13 executive departures in 2026; the company filed confidentially for an IPO in June and expects to be public by 2027. Link

Zuckerberg Called Off a Plan to Cut Some Meta Teams by 60%: Project OT, Organization Transformation, developed at Zuckerberg’s January leadership retreat, envisioned AI absorbing work from thousands of employees, with small human crews supervising virtual ones. The first round, about 10% of the workforce, went ahead in May; Zuckerberg shelved the second after employee resistance and doubts about the productivity gains. Tension spiked when Meta required tracking software on U.S. employees’ devices to capture keystrokes and mouse clicks for training computer-use agents, and staff concluded they were training their replacements. Link

Stanford Finds AI’s Employment Effect Sits Almost Entirely in Entry-Level Hiring: Among workers aged 22 to 25, employment in the most AI-exposed occupations is now 19% below less-exposed ones, up from a 13% gap a year earlier. The mechanism is hiring, not layoffs, older workers in the same occupations show no comparable effect, and the decline concentrates where AI substitutes for tasks rather than complementing them. The updated August figures come from “Canaries in the Coal Mine?”, the economists’ running series on AI employment effects. Link

Debian’s Ballots on AI-Written Code Close Friday: Debian developers are voting on General Resolution 2026-002, an eight-option preferential ballot on LLM use in the distribution. Proposal A, from Matthias Geiger, bans all contributions produced with help from large language models or other generative AI; Proposal B permits them if the submitter declares the use, ensures the work is copyright-free and takes responsibility. Each option was seconded by between six and 17 developers. Discussion opened July 24, Project Leader Sruthi Chandran extended voting by a week, and ballots close August 28. Link

ChatGPT Work Will Now Sign In to Websites on a User’s Behalf: OpenAI said Wednesday its Work browser can complete tasks on sites that require a login, surfacing the login screen for the user to enter credentials and stating that ChatGPT does not see the username or password. Scheduled Tasks also gained event-driven webhook triggers for Gmail, Slack and GitHub, so a task can fire on a new message or pull request instead of a clock. The login feature is rolling out to Plus, Pro and Business; Free accounts get Scheduled Tasks capped at three, with no webhook triggers. Link