One Nation United Against Data Centers - Week in Tech

This week: AI regulation, dark money and data center backlash. Reed Albergotti (Semafor) helps decipher how the Trump Administration actually feels about AI oversight and it seems like a reversal of the hands-off approach they’ve taken so far. Taylor Lorenz (User Mag) exposes a dark money influencer campaign — one she was personally recruited for — that's paying creators to push pro-American AI, anti-China messaging on behalf of a Big Tech super PAC. And Nitasha Tiku (The Washington Post) reports on the fast-growing, bipartisan movement fighting data center construction in communities across the country. Plus: Sam Altman's leaked texts, 120,000 tech layoffs, and the GPT-5.5 launch party.
Additional Reading:
• So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday’s Internet (nytimes.com/2026/05/03/business/ask-jeeves-shu…)
• White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released | The New York Times (nytimes.com/2026/05/04/technology/trump-ai-mod…)
• A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat | WIRED (wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and…)
• Inside a growing movement warning AI could turn on humanity | The Washington Post (washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/18/ai-do…)
• ‘The Most Bipartisan Issue Since Beer’: Opposition to Data Centers | The New York Times (nytimes.com/2026/05/01/us/politics/liberals-co…)
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