President Donald Trump called for large data centers to generate their own electricity and share excess power or financial “dividends” with local communities, positioning the White House against letting consumers shoulder AI-driven utility costs. The appeal comes as local fights over power- and water-hungry facilities intensify and as midterm polling shows voters giving Democrats an edge on handling artificial intelligence.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei defended the company’s safety record, highlighting restrictions on selling AI services to Chinese state-controlled firms and citing other commercially costly safeguards. The remarks arrive amid a broader political cash-and-policy battle: OpenAI President Greg Brockman has funded a group pushing federal pre-emption of state AI rules, while Anthropic has opposed that approach.
Regulatory and security pressures mounted elsewhere. The FBI and NSA urged urgent patching of critical PHP vulnerabilities, with agencies in Europe taking government sites offline as a precaution. Tech and infrastructure spending remained robust, with Google adding rival models to its cloud and Nvidia touting Europe’s potential in AI and robotics.
The political backdrop sharpened as a Democratic Senate candidate proposed partial public ownership of the AI industry and Republicans warned against “big government.” Markets signaled continued data center demand, even as legal and compliance risks rose for Big Tech, including a $25 billion judgment against Meta in New Mexico.
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