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Democrats' AI Spending Curtailment: The Dumbest Idea in Washington

After the midterm sweep, Democrats want to slow America's AI build-out. The Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez bill would freeze building and upgrading of AI data centres nationwide, and a superintelligence ban Rep. Yassamin Ansari wants atop the agenda would pause every model trained with 10^25 operations or more. Governors-elect in Texas and Georgia back pauses, and Goldman Sachs puts 45% of planned capacity in Democrat-run states backing moratoriums. Shayne Heffernan: AI computing follows the power.