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Lasher—who no AI company spent big money to elect—had just beaten Alex Bores, a state assemblyman who became the unlikely center of an extraordinary bidding war between rival AI factions. Pro-safety AI super PACs, including Public First Action backed by Anthropic, poured $19 million into supporting Bores. Leading the Future, tied to OpenAI president Greg Brockman and Andreessen Horowitz, spent $8 million trying to destroy him. Lasher won with 39% of the vote (while Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg came in a distant third place). And then Lasher pledged to pursue the same AI regulation agenda as the man he beat.

Regardless of letter by the name, absolutely no amount of money can buy as many votes as anyone would get by not taking AI money...

No one actually wants this shit except the politicians who have been bribed to make it happen no matter what.

Pushing this hard on one of the only issues that actually has widescale support is going to really backfire. Even people who see AI is inevitable, none of them want datacenters anywhere near them.

What's fucking crazy, is no one is trying to build out in Alaska.

Cold as fuck, sparsely populated, huge tax breaks for everyone, and I gotta assume there's major internet connections they could tap into when it crosses continents at the shortest point.

Or like Japan building underseas by thermal vents, but in America they build them in fucking neighborhoods, likely knowing it will crash all surrounding property values giving them easy expansion down the road.