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Hier — 23 octobre 2026Presse

The Google Home Speaker Has Been Secretly Eating My Wi-Fi Data

My Google Home Speaker had been burning through more data than all the rest of my devices combined. As I looked into it further, I found other smart home devices that had the same problem.
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The A.I. Data Center Backlash Has Reached a Quiet Corner of Rural England

Plans to build one of Europe’s largest data centers in Devon have been met by strong opposition from residents, as environmental concerns grow.

Daisy Snow, right, Ann Shuttleworth, left, and others protesting the proposed data center in Bideford, England, last month.

Utilities Struggle to Confront Issue of 'Phantom' AI Data Centers

Electric utilities across the country are tightening their rules on new AI data center customers, requiring binding financial commitments, collateral and steep engineering fees to separate genuine projects from speculative ones, known as "phantom" data centers in the industry.

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Exclusive—Aiden Buzzetti: Don’t Let China Wire America’s Data Centers

Lobbyists and lawmakers argue constantly about who could or should make the chips inside the data centers powering the development of artificial intelligence, but far fewer people ask about the components that connect those chips to each other and the outside world. That’s a big mistake because many of those components are made in China.

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As Japan’s Population Shrinks, a City Is Accused of Padding Census Numbers

The police are investigating how about 3,000 nonexistent residents were added to official data for Toyama.

The city of Toyama in 2024.

For Progressives, Big Tech is Becoming the New Big Oil

Technology

For Progressives, Big Tech is Becoming the New Big Oil

Highly ideological liberal elites are conspiring to take over the AI safety field.

President Trump Holds Press Conference With Elon Musk in White House's Oval Office
(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

What would it take for a European country to sabotage its own energy security, pouring cement down its gas wells and sealing them off for good?

Not much, it turns out. The Dutch government is doing exactly that, permanently burying reserves worth €200 billion (that’s around €150,000 per Dutch citizen) because locals complained about tremors so faint that most people never felt them.

Britain has banned new drilling in the North Sea, one of the richest oil reserves on earth. The EU has spent five years and counting forbidding oil and gas exploration in the Arctic, even as it declared its intention to wean itself off Russian energy. Stories like these are routine now. They are the fruit of a political crusade against fossil fuels that the progressive left has waged for decades.

The United States has held up better. Every time progressives have moved to kill a pipeline or a drilling project, Republicans have been there to block them. Part of the reason is that Republicans, far more than their European counterparts, understood what these anti-fossil fuel policies were really about.

In the 1990s, as the Democratic left grew more absorbed in environmentalism, the oil industry drifted toward the Republican Party for protection. The drift became a realignment in 2000, when voters narrowly sent two former oil executives, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, to the White House. Progressives now had every reason to make the industry a public villain, and they went about it with enthusiasm.

So began the golden age of the climate narrative. In 2006, Al Gore, the man Bush had beaten, released An Inconvenient Truth, and it became a global sensation. I was a 15-year-old liberal at the time and found it persuasive. A year earlier, my secondary-school geography class had sat through a solemn screening of The Day After Tomorrow, a climate-apocalypse film our teacher plainly regarded as required viewing. The fate of the planet, we understood, depended on our paying attention. All of this while two Republican oilmen sat in the White House, and while the oil, gas, and coal industries kept writing checks mostly to Republicans. I am still no admirer of Bush, but it is hard to believe that was a coincidence.

Something similar is happening to Big Tech. When President Donald Trump said recently that data centers could be “bigger than oil,” he probably meant the economic upside. But the resemblance runs deeper than that. Today’s fevered warnings of a tech-driven apocalypse sound a great deal like the case made against oil in the mid-2000s, and they are driven by the same partisan logic.

Four years ago, Silicon Valley was a progressive stronghold, the censorship arm of the global elite. Every major social media platform had banned Trump outright.

Now the same industry is the left’s favorite villain. The platforms have not only restored Trump and his allies; they have made their peace with his administration. Elon Musk’s right-wing radicalism seems to deepen by the week. Palantir grips the far left’s imagination as an accomplice in ICE deportations. Data centers are cast as environmental plagues.

And as with oil companies, Democrats are keen to demonize tech as an existential threat to humanity. The progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants to completely ban the development of AI superintelligence—taking it as given that such a technology is even possible to develop, which remains a topic of debate. One would think the doyen of “abundance liberalism,” Ezra Klein, might disagree with socialist Sanders, but no—in a recent New York Times article, he suggests banning AIs from coding, a step which would be even more radical than what Sanders has proposed. 

More serious, because it is already playing out, is Anthropic’s insistence that all AI companies open up their technology to third-party evaluators. Sounds like a good idea—except the CEO of their handpicked AI safety outfit, METR, has expressed the belief that “effective altruism” means destroying the concept of national borders. As my institute, the Foundation for Freedom Online, has been laying out in a series of recent reports, these “neutral third-party evaluators” have much in common with the “disinformation” and “brand safety” experts who seek to insert themselves (sometimes via government mandates) as intermediaries between social media algorithms and the public. It is now on AI safetyists to prove that their project isn’t just a similar ideological power-grab over the technology of the future. 

The right still has real complaints about the tech giants. The headline reinstatements aside, biased content moderation remains an unsolved problem. But taken as a whole, the picture is hard to describe as anything but a full reversal.

Given how quickly it happened, it is no wonder the narrative has lagged behind, but the story now filling the vacuum is a poor one. The public is being sold an account of the technology industry that blends legitimate worry with exaggeration and, in its wilder versions, plain paranoia.

In this account, Elon Musk is poisoning democracy. He fed USAID to the woodchipper, which is true. My institute’s founder, Mike Benz, lent a hand, and the agency had it coming. Politicians in Europe and Britain accuse Musk of stoking “extremism” in their countries. The rest of the industry, we are told, has thrown in with the Trump administration, which is using Palantir to steal Americans’ data, deport innocent immigrants, and bomb Palestinians. Its moguls intend to reduce the rest of us to digital serfs, stripped of our jobs and of control over our data, our likenesses, and our identities. The data centers powering all of this will finish off the environment, unless superintelligent machines finish off humanity first.

Democrats, career bureaucrats, and foreign governments have an even stronger motive to go after tech than they had to go after oil. The oil industry merely funded Republicans. Big Tech undermined the legacy press and thus also the control by liberal elites of public information. Across the West, the power of liberal officials and functionaries depended in large part on this control. When Musk bought Twitter (now X) and restored free speech, he became the face of a perceived threat to their continued rule.

Among European governments, this political calculation is compounded by a wish not merely to rein in American tech firms, but to replace them with an indigenous “Eurostack” subsidized by the taxpayer, data centers included. “Digital sovereignty” has become a fashionable slogan in a Canada that seeks to get out from under American economic dominance. The panic isn’t actually about the dangers of out-of-control AI or the harms, real or imagined, associated with data centers. It is a fight to defend the power of Western governing elites. Conservatives, who instinctively distrust those same elites, should be made aware of this fight so that they can better understand the political stakes of the intensifying debate about Big Tech.

Of course, not every critic of Big Tech is a political shill. When the podcaster Theo Von argues that data centers belong to a Silicon Valley scheme to achieve immortality, corner the necessary technology, and consign everyone else to permanent serfdom, he means it, even if the theory is a bit mad. Teenage climate activists who vandalize historic paintings because they expect the world to end within their lifetimes are usually sincere too. They need not grasp the elite politics that shaped their beliefs. The line running from Al Gore and The Day After Tomorrow through the permanent “climate emergency” back to American party politics in the 2000s may never occur to them. A belief can be sincerely held and still be the downstream product of an elite campaign against an industry seen as a political threat.

Republicans eventually learned to tell a good story about energy. “Net Zero” is now a reliable target for right-wing populists, who tie it to stagnation, soaring power bills, and the petty indignities of regulated life, from paper straws to feeble air conditioning. In the United States, green policy came to be associated with the hollowing out of the Rust Belt and the loss of good jobs in mining and oil. Both stories were substantially true, and the parties of the right profited from telling them.

Technology is a harder case. The industry does not employ a comparably broad domestic workforce, and its reliance on H-1B labor remains a stain on its record. Tying Silicon Valley’s prosperity to the prosperity of the average American is more difficult than tying energy production to jobs and cheap power. But conservatives can still explain the fight over political control.

The story should begin with the industry’s pre-election gamble in 2024. Starting with Musk’s X, technology companies began refusing demands from governments and activist groups to censor their political opponents at scale. Data centers had existed for years by then. The nationwide panic over them had not. The timing deserves more attention than it gets.

Many conservatives are understandably exasperated by what they see as conspiracy theories circulating among their fellow travelers in the podcast world, such as those regarding data centers. But the public should not be scolded for staying alert to elite coordination. It should be pointed toward the kinds of coordination that can be proved.

Is there a concerted effort by the permanent bureaucracy in the United States and by foreign governments to weaken, capture, or replace American technology platforms, and with them Americans’ ability to speak freely online? There is. Is a similar cohort of highly ideological elites now assembling to take over the AI safety field? It certainly seems so. That is its own kind of elite coordination, and a story which many readers of this magazine will find familiar.

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Dem Rep. Bera: Dems Blocking Data Center Electricity Bill for 'Politics'

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) said that Senate Democrats are blocking the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed the House 417-3, because of “politics that are coming into play.” And if it were up to

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Leading AI Experts Fault Senate Democrats for Blocking Ratepayer Act

Innovation Council Action Director of Government Affairs Nicholas Elliot said Wednesday that Senate Democrats voted to push rising electricity costs onto American families after the chamber blocked the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act.

The post Leading AI Experts Fault Senate Democrats for Blocking Ratepayer Act appeared first on Breitbart.

Data Center Developer Offers Rural Pennsylvania Households $10,000 Checks to Drop Opposition

A developer trying to build a massive data center near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, is offering nearby households $10,000 checks if the project gets approved.

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As A.I. Panic Grows, Javier Milei Is Pitching Argentina As a Rules-Free Haven

Mr. Milei wants to go all in on artificial intelligence even as other leaders struggle to get a handle on a technology many fear poses existential threats.

President Javier Milei at the United Nations last week where he asserted Argentina’s “commitment to not preemptively regulate A.I.”

Mike Johnson Claims Opposition to Data Centers 'Coming from China'

Par : Paul Bois

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed on Monday that opposition to data centers is "coming from China."

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Google to Launch Satellite to Test Orbital AI Data Center Technology

Google is preparing to launch a satellite carrying its AI chips into orbit, part of an early test of whether space could someday host AI data centers.

The post Google to Launch Satellite to Test Orbital AI Data Center Technology appeared first on Breitbart.

A Spirited Battle Over Data Centers

At the Climate Forward live event, policymakers, executives and activists debated the boom in data centers, the growing backlash and its environmental effects.

Reporter David Gelles in conversation with Energy Secretary Chris Wright at the Climate Forward event on Wednesday.

Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me

The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.

'Honor Our Farming Families': Kentucky County Permanently Bans AI Data Centers

Woodford County in Kentucky has enacted a permanent, outright ban on data center development, following a Fiscal Court vote coordinated with the local governments of Midway and Versailles.

The post ‘Honor Our Farming Families’: Kentucky County Permanently Bans AI Data Centers appeared first on Breitbart.

Exclusive — Sen. Dave McCormick: Locals Should Determine if They Want Data Centers, Not CEOs

Local municipalities should be in control of whether data centers are built in their communities as the United States works to beat China in the AI arms race, Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) told Breitbart News.

The post Exclusive — Sen. Dave McCormick: Locals Should Determine if They Want Data Centers, Not CEOs appeared first on Breitbart.

A US Census Report on Noncitizen Voting Used Bad Data to Reach Faulty Conclusions

Trump has touted a recent Census report. WIRED found grave flaws in its analysis and the process behind it, and confirmed the identity of several of its authors—among them a one-time DOGE affiliate.

Security Experts: AI Data Centers Contain Hidden Risks from China

The Trump administration is tightening scrutiny of Chinese-made equipment that powers America's data centers, citing national security risks as demand for electricity to run AI systems surges.

The post Security Experts: AI Data Centers Contain Hidden Risks from China appeared first on Breitbart.

Putin Says Russia Planning to Build AI Data Centers in the Arctic

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin described a plan on Thursday to build networks of data storage and processing centers in the country’s Arctic, alongside “small nuclear power plants” developed to feed the data centers energy.

The post Putin Says Russia Planning to Build AI Data Centers in the Arctic appeared first on Breitbart.

Tennessee Poll: Marsha Blackburn Has Commanding Lead in Governor's Race

A new poll from the Beacon Center in Tennessee finds Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn is well on her way to the Governor's Mansion in two months. Blackburn leads Democrat Jerri Green in the race to succeed two-term Gov. Bill Lee, with a 55 percent to 34 percent margin among likely voters in the Volunteer State.

The post Tennessee Poll: Marsha Blackburn Has Commanding Lead in Governor’s Race appeared first on Breitbart.

Exclusive – Sen. Ron Johnson Says Chinese Propaganda Fueling Data Center Opposition: ‘Do We Really Want to Lose the Race to AI?’

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said during a Breitbart News Fight Club Roundtable that he believes China is helping fund opposition to artificial intelligence data centers, while arguing that the country should consider the effects on the electrical grid and water resources without putting itself at a disadvantage in the competition over AI.

The post Exclusive – Sen. Ron Johnson Says Chinese Propaganda Fueling Data Center Opposition: ‘Do We Really Want to Lose the Race to AI?’ appeared first on Breitbart.

Exclusive — North Carolina Senator Ted Budd: Tax Cuts and Trade Deals Are Driving Growth

North Carolina Republican Senator Ted Budd told Breitbart News on Tuesday that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has "done an incredible job" serving in the Trump administration and hosting leaders at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting.

The post Exclusive — North Carolina Senator Ted Budd: Tax Cuts and Trade Deals Are Driving Growth appeared first on Breitbart.

Larry Kudlow and Scott Bessent: We Are in An Economic Boom Not Seen in Decades

Fox Business host Larry Kudlow hosted a fireside chat with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on day two of the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in Asheville, North Carolina on Tuesday. Kudlow led off with an extended riff about how the main story should be economic boom not seen in decades and praised Bessent as, "the best, most important wartime treasury secretary since World War II."

The post Larry Kudlow and Scott Bessent: We Are in An Economic Boom Not Seen in Decades appeared first on Breitbart.

Tech Evangelist Bill Gates Suddenly Argues AI Needs to Slow Down to Protect Humanity

Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and leftist billionaire who has spent years predicting that AI would free people from drudgery and speed cures for disease and climate change, published an essay Wednesday warning that without urgent government intervention, AI could cause more harm than good.

The post Tech Evangelist Bill Gates Suddenly Argues AI Needs to Slow Down to Protect Humanity appeared first on Breitbart.

GOP Rep. McCormick: New Data Centers Shouldn't Get 'Any Tax Breaks'

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) said that he thinks data centers are beneficial, but “if you’re negotiating any new data centers, I don’t think you should give them any tax breaks. There are certain

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Ken Paxton Unveils Plan to Prevent 'Negative Impact' of AI Data Centers on Texas

Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton released an AI data center plan Monday, calling for federal legislation to block Chinese technology in the facilities and criminal liability for centers that power AI chatbots harming children.

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Governor Abbott: Data Centers 'Dug Their Own Grave'

Par : Pam Key

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) said AI data centers have “dug their own grave” by not working in collaboration with local governments. Abbott said, “What we’ve been focused on is responding to concerns that have been raised

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Tech Giants Scramble to Calm Public Anger over AI Data Centers

In July, roughly 1,000 Georgia residents gathered at the Effingham County College & Career Academy to hear what OpenAI could offer their community. They also faced protesters angry about the impacts of AI data centers.

The post Tech Giants Scramble to Calm Public Anger over AI Data Centers appeared first on Breitbart.

Liquid Death and Jason Kelce's Garage Beer Mockingly Call on Americans to Save Urine to Cool AI Data Centers

Liquid Death and Garage Beer have launched a campaign mocking AI data centers by asking Americans to donate their urine as a water-saving fix for the resource hogs popping up around the country.

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James Talarico Shuts Out Local News at Campaign Event

Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico is facing criticism from a local newspaper in Abilene after attempting to keep a campaign event hidden from reporters.

The post James Talarico Shuts Out Local News at Campaign Event appeared first on Breitbart.

China Wants Its Data to Power the World’s A.I.

China is exporting more than A.I. models. It wants its data to influence the world’s chatbots, raising fears that Beijing’s narratives will spread with the technology.

A Google booth during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai last month. China wants a greater voice in the development of A.I. chatbots.

Breitbart Business Digest: What's Fueling the Mysterious Growth in Office Construction?

In our age of low workforce growth and remote work, who would be building offices at such an accelerated pace? What's fueling the growth is data center construction.

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Bipartisan Anti-Tech Populism May Just Help the Left

Politics

Bipartisan Anti-Tech Populism May Just Help the Left

Opposition to data centers and Flock cameras advance the left’s agenda without scoring concrete wins for the right.

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It’s rare to find agreement in American politics, but elements of the right and left seem to have found common ground on opposing tech. Both sides of the aisle are raging against data centers, Flock cameras, and the industry’s inadequate attention to child safety measures. 

But this bipartisan push may not be all that great for the right. Many of these measures will deprive deep-red counties of revenue, hinder law enforcement, and empower liberal bureaucrats to censor the internet. Bipartisan support doesn’t always mean something is a great idea. Just look at the Iran War and the broad support for amnesty in the early 2010s. Anti-tech populism could do more harm to the right’s interests than people imagine.

Data centers are a major midterm issue. Both Republicans and Democrats are calling for moratoriums, with a few states passing restrictions on future construction. The sites are criticized for a variety of reasons. They can lower property values, cause noise pollution, and raise utility costs. They’re specifically attacked by the left for posing a threat to the environment. A number of Republicans, such as Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis, feel attacking data centers provides a good way to build credentials with a national conservative audience. In spite of the suspicion with data centers, they can support another conservative goal: lowering property taxes. A number of counties profiting off data centers are slashing these despised taxes. DeSantis and other Republicans love to assail these obligations, but one way to reduce them is revenue from the data centers they want to ban.

Data center outrage is now joined by growing concerns over Flock cameras. These AI-powered license-plate readers are intended to help law enforcement solve crimes and not monitor petty traffic offenses. Police departments around the country have plenty of data to show how Flock has helped them nab criminals. But people fear that they could be abused by police and violate people’s privacy. It doesn’t help that Flock’s online backers are extremely sensitive about criticism. I was recently accused by people affiliated with Flock of being a possible foreign agent over a post merely saying why people would be worried about them. 

You’ll find equal numbers of right-wingers and leftists deriding Flock cameras. Both see it as a case of encroaching Big Brother. But leftists have other reasons besides fears of authoritarian abuse and privacy concerns. They don’t like the cameras because they will help law enforcement, particularly ICE. Much of the hysteria over Flock centers on how they’ve been used to catch illegal aliens. The left doesn’t want police, whether local or federal, to have these tools. Unsurprisingly, the people responsible for the rash of Flock vandalism appear to be leftists, with a number filming themselves destroying the cameras in anti-police shirts.

What’s interesting is that the lawmakers most eager to ban them come from the far-right of the Republican Party. Some of the most conservative Republicans in Congress want them banned. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) warns that the cameras violate our constitutional rights, a view echoed by Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX), Andrew Clyde (R-GA), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), and Thomas Massie (R-TN). 

This push against Flock comes at a time when much of the right wants the state to arrest more illegal immigrants and native-born criminals. Flock could help with that goal, but that doesn’t appear to be a popular talking point on the right. Instead, it appears to be more popular to help the left’s goal of hindering immigration operations. Liberals are quite open about why they don’t like Flock. At the top of its list of problems with the cameras, the ACLU states: “ICE and CBP have repeatedly used Flock to go after immigrants without warrants.” Santa Cruz, California, and other cities around the country have cancelled their Flock contracts over worries the data will be used by immigration enforcement.

Conservatives can, of course, have different reasons for Flock suspicions. But eliminating license-plate readers may just end up making it harder for law enforcement to locate criminals and illegal aliens. Burchett and other conservative Republicans want more deportations. Their Flock bans would likely make that goal harder to achieve while doing little to minimize the surveillance state. We’d still have an abundance of traffic cameras and other invasive tech in our public spaces.

Congress is united in attempts to make the internet safer for kids. But this is another effort that would enable the left to achieve its policy goals at the right’s expense. The KIDS Act passed the House a few weeks ago with a solid majority. Nearly 270 lawmakers voted for it, while only 117 voted against. While the bill received majority support from both parties, more Republicans voted for it than Democrats did. Just 32 Republicans cast a vote against it.

The bill would impose age verification across much of the internet, push for more safety features and parental controls, and restrict AI bot interaction with children. Conservatives support the bill in part because it aims to restrict access to pornography, a long-time goal for the right. But the bill also offers a way for liberal bureaucrats to impose censorship.

The age-verification requirements would undermine online anonymity. Anonymity has proven a boon for right-wing speech online, as I document in my new book, Whitepill. Anons helped Trump win two elections and made the right embrace ideas once restricted to the fringe. Free speech on the internet is a gift for conservatives, but this bill may intimidate anons into abandoning the new public forum. Many would not trust giving their full names and home addresses to strangers at tech companies just to have the right to post. This is a clear invasion of privacy, one that could be argued is worse than license-plate readers. Yet that’s what the KIDS Act.

The bill also allows the government to censor speech. It demands tech platforms suppress content related to alcohol, gambling, drug use, and other vices that might be aimed at kids. It’s not hard to see this as opening a backdoor for liberal bureaucrats to demand censorship of “hate speech” that minors may interact with. If that’s deemed harmful to children, tech companies may decide to censor it just to avoid the hassle of dealing with government monitors. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation notes, “When platforms are required to create and enforce content moderation policies that regulators can sue them over, they will often err on the side of deleting speech.”

Much of the public is leery of Big Tech. Conservatives have long held to this sentiment due to the industry’s insidious censorship practices. While it may be smart for politicians looking to be re-elected to appeal to this sentiment, it doesn’t do our side any favors when the measures passed hurt the right.

There isn’t much to gain from banning data centers except depriving many deep-red counties of desperately needed revenue and stymieing further technological advancement. Getting rid of Flock cameras may seem like a big win for privacy rights, but it would hinder our ability to deport illegal immigrants and arrest dangerous criminals. It’s a good idea to make the internet a safer place for kids, but it shouldn’t come at the expense of free speech.

The left has nothing to worry about with these measures. They’ll achieve their goals without any downsides. But it’s a completely different story for conservatives. They’ll end up hurting their own interests with little in return.

There are undoubtedly anti-tech sentiments on both sides of the aisle. But the current focus of anti-tech populism redirects these sentiments toward left-wing ends.

Just because something seems popular doesn’t make it right.

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Steve Moore: Data Centers 'Should Pay for Other People's Electricity Bills' as 'Enticement'

On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” former Trump Economic Adviser Stephen Moore said that data centers “should pay most of the electricity bills. In other words, they shouldn’t just pay their own way, they should pay

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