Maintenance in progress

private corporate intelligence firms are reportedly selling dossiers on critics of ai and data center construction to both companies and federal regulators, framing grassroots opposition as a counterterrorism concern, as data center resistance becomes a bipartisan election issue. in parallel the us general services administration revised its ai procurement clause but still left a key governance term undefined, meaning ai rules are being written through contracts rather than law. surveillance of opposition and rulemaking-by-purchase-order are moving in the same direction.

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