Nevada lets data reign

"... let Data Reign." Kudos to Trump for laying bare the raw piggish cupidity that has been a central driver of the data center infestation. Even Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, who never met a data center he didn't want to cuddle up with, has the political sense to couch his unbridled devotion to the industry in pleasant if fuzzy promises about safeguards and conditions.

Trump, by contrast, candidly articulated his party's official position on data centers, whether Lombardo and Republicana like it or not:

"The only reason," Trump wrote on his social media site yesterday, "that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor. If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign."

So that's another thing for Republican candidates from coast to coast to explain.

Or as Lombardo might say, "c'mon man."

IN NEVADA CURRENT

Let data reign? Nevada's on board! This outfit just keeps expanding its wannabe data center footprint, and says it would like to power them with bespoke natural gas plants built just for them. How does that work, given Nevada's renewable energy targets? Oh, those targets don't apply to private greenhouse gas emitters, or so the argument goes. (Besides, we don't want communities to end up backwards and poor, now do we?) Jeniffer Solis reports: Private gas plants to power data centers would skirt state’s renewable energy law

Way mo' malign neglect.  If Waymo and other autonomous vehicles take over the roadways, the already meager transportation options for disabled passengers will be further diminished, warns a disability rights advocate. April Corbin Girnus reports: As Waymo expands fleet, some wheelchair users will be left at curb, says advocate

Simply ballroom. Here we have a simple and easily understandable example of why, thanks to Trump and Republicans, the number of Supreme Court justices must be expanded from nine to thirteen. Via the D.C. bureau. Supreme Court lets Trump move ahead on one of his top priorities: The ballroom

“President Trump’s top priority is the health and safety of the American people," said a White House official in a statement that by virtue of its untrustworthiness underscores the perpetual threat the Trump White House and its officials pose to the health and safety of the American people. Via Stateline: A summer of recalls exposes holes in the nation’s food safety net

Good Luck