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Pennsylvania state treasurer and Republican candidate for governor, overseeing state investments and financial policy.
Executive Order 2026-05 and the GRID Standards turn permitting speed and a sales tax exemption projected to cost more than $517 million a year by FY 2030-31 into things developers must earn.
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Executive Order 2026-05 tells the state environmental regulator to withhold data center permits until developers sign binding cost commitments and win local approval.
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Flock says its license plate readers operate in 6,000 communities in every state but Alaska, and candidates in both parties are now pledging bans, funding pauses and warrant rules, which turns a signed municipal contract into an election-year liability.
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Shapiro's August order makes developers earn town-level support before they can apply to the state, and bring paid-for power of their own. With seven in ten Americans opposed to local AI data centers, that first step is the costly one.
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Pennsylvania wants local sign-off before it issues a state permit. Texas has stopped approvals pending audits. For anyone modelling 2027 compute, siting has become the line item with the least slack.
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Florida's Republican gubernatorial nominee ran on ratepayer costs while taking AI PAC money. The NRSC calls data centers a midterm "sleeper issue." Cost allocation is now a schedule risk.
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