Signal: Oversight of the build-out now runs through people and politics: a CEO's affair under inquiry, the federal safety office answering to the White House.
Nvidia's chief executive told staff he was unfaithful with the Chinese executive US intelligence calls a recruited asset, and the board - which says it has no reason to believe secrets were compromised - will investigate while he stays on.
Anthropic took over OnePWR's Caterpillar orders in late September - the largest known generator purchase by an AI lab, the FT says - and neither company will say where 1.7GW of gas will burn.
The Commerce Department division that judges whether new models are safe has no permanent leader, stopped publishing its research in August, and was recently asked to report informally to a White House office - on a $10MN budget, an eighth of Britain's.
Data Center Watch counted 32 of 34 winning governors backing tighter rules and twelve backing outright bans, after campaigns spent $380MN on television advertising naming data centers - and Wisconsin's governor-elect flipped to supporting a moratorium under pressure.