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The Download: Pelosi’s successor targets AI and data centers face power woes

The backlash about data centers might really just be about electricity —James O’Donnell As voters went to the polls across the US last week, I was in Ashburn, Virginia, part of what’s known as Data Center Alley—the world’s largest data center hub.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 10, 2026, 1:10 PM UTC
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  • This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
  • (Gizmodo) Quote of the day “Nvidia is not an ordinary company and Jensen is not an ordinary ⁠CEO; he is Nvidia, clearly sets the long-term strategy and direction, and pulls most of the company’s strings himself.” —Stacy Rasgon, an analyst at ​Bernstein, tells Reuters why it will be so difficult to replace Jensen Huang as Nvidia CEO.
  • “Because it’s moving very quickly, and we could sleepwalk into a disaster.” Still, he describes himself as only “cautiously optimistic” about Congress’s ability to rein in AI.

Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI —Grace Huckins As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI.

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  • But a few days in Ashburn convinced me the real fault line may be electricity: drawing it from the grid or generating it onsite provokes different forms of blowback.
  • Big Tech has framed the data center uproar as a culture war over progress.
  • One More Thing China wants to restore the sea with high-tech marine ranches Just a short ferry ride from the Chinese port city of Yantai sits Genghai No.
  • But he was already thinking about AI risk: during our 20-minute conversation, he used the phrase “recursive self-improvement” half a dozen times.
  • (MIT Technology Review) 4 The FDA has ordered GLP-1s to carry warnings about blindness It says the drugs may increase the risk of vision loss.

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