Category: Federal policy
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A bill in Congress would force data centers to come clean before they break ground
There’s a bill in Congress that would make it harder to pull off what happened in Memphis with xAI. It’s called the AI Data Center Site Selection Transparency Act. It says that before a company can build one of these giant data centers, it has to come out into the open first. Six months ahead…
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You pay double for sugar – and Tennessee doesn’t even grow it.
I’ve been looking for more solutions that address affordability – you know, that word Trump said Democrats made up? Last week, I wrote about ethanol – how a 1970s rule still forces corn into your gas tank and quietly raises what you pay. Well, sugar works the same way. The federal government caps how much…
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Tennessee turned down $27 billion. Then it lost more hospitals than any state but Texas.
Let’s talk about Healthcare. Tennessee has lost sixteen rural hospitals. That’s more than any state but Texas. One of them was Haywood Park, in Brownsville. It closed in 2014. The building sat empty for eight years. For most of that time, if you had a heart attack in Haywood County, the closest ER was in…
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The rent on the sign isn’t the rent you pay
The listing says $1,095. By the time you sign, it’s $1,250 – and you paid $50 just to apply. Here’s the fee racket renters face, and the bill that fixes it.
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Trump is using a 1935 wartime law to keep the most expensive power in America on your bill
This is gonna piss you off, but we gotta talk about coal. There’s a sentence written in 1935 that’s about to show up on your power bill. Trump put out a poster this week – a coal miner with a pickaxe, smokestacks behind him, the words “President Trump’s Coal Actions Create 14,000 Jobs.” Very Depression-era.…
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Let’s Talk About Data Centers Like Adults
This should be fun. Let’s talk about data centers. Like adults. It seems like whenever anyone talks about one – they’re picturing a warehouse full of chatbots. And sure, they do power those. But the data center streaming your Netflix or YouTube, backing up all those emails you haven’t opened, managing your bank account, streaming…