AI Showdown: State Rules, Data Centers and Google’s Q-Day
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01-Apr-2026
Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Andi Mann, and Teri Robinson dissect the “AI showdown” between statehouses and the White House—why California, Colorado, and New York are rushing their own rules, and what that fragmentation means for every SaaS vendor and compliance team.
They also explore the Sanders/AOC call for a national data-center moratorium and Google’s Q-Day 2029 warning, laying out how energy politics, sustainability mandates, and post-quantum cryptography planning now collide for anyone running cloud infrastructure.
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