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.

Senior caseworker Hollie Wickens says half the email reaching a Labour MP's office is now AI-written, and councils, courts, schools and lawyers report the same flood - researchers call it 'agentic flooding', and it costs moments to send and hours to answer.