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Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules
Massachusetts executive order requires data centers over 25 MW to supply 100% clean power, fund nearby generation, or pay a ratepayer protection fund.
Governor Maura Healey's executive order requires developers building data centers larger than 25 megawatts of peak demand to bring their own power that meets 100% of the state's clean energy standard, fund new generation nearby, or pay into a ratepayer protection fund. Massachusetts is the third state in three months to restrict data center development, following Texas utility audits (ERCOT) and New York's pause on 50 MW-plus projects. The state is also pausing applications for a data center sales tax exemption and directing communities to avoid non-disclosure agreements. Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future, funded by Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Greg Brockman, is running ads ahead of midterms as industry pushes back.
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The AI policy window is open. We need to act.
OpenAI calls for mandatory national AI safety regulation and backs four California AI safety bills as capabilities accelerate.
OpenAI argues the rapid pace of AI progress, including signs of AI-accelerated research, requires urgent policy action through mandatory, capability-based national regulation. The company endorses four California bills (SB 813, AB 1405, SB 1119, AB 1864) covering independent safety assessments, AI auditor standards, youth protections, and safeguards against AI-enabled biological threats. It also commits to industry-led frontier standards, international coordination, and strengthening internal safeguards such as universal trajectory monitoring and mandatory alignment-evaluation gates for its Astra model. The post references chief scientist Jakub Pachocki's warning about recursive self-improvement and Greg Brockman's "defenders window" concept.
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Week in review: PostgreSQL databases under attack, new Chrome zero-day actively exploited
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