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• The Download: Texas’s fragile AI boom and energy policy shifts

  05-11-2026 14:10 via MIT Technology Review
  
  This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.Texas was the new epicenter of the AI data center buildout. That might be kaput.Texas is the fastest-growing data center market in the US and ground zero for Big Tech’s largest AI buildouts. But the blue wave that swept the Lone Star State may jeopardize that position.Democrat James Talarico won the US Senate seat, Gina Hinojosa won the race for governor,
  
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• A new bill could change how the US builds energy infrastructure 

  05-11-2026 11:00 via MIT Technology Review
  
  A sweeping bit of legislation designed to cut red tape could speed up the buildout of energy infrastructure in the US.With the dust barely settled on this week’s momentous midterms, the Senate is set to vote on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) on November 9. It’s a plan that could finally start an overhaul of the slow, complicated process for getting energy projects approved, as part of something called permitting reform. People on both sides of the political aisle
  
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