Artificial intelligence
🏛️ Energy, AI and Data Center Policy: What the Orders Say
Read the 2025 and 2026 presidential orders, plans and pledges on energy, AI and data centers in their own words, see who wrote and backs them, weigh the evidence on an AI slowdown, and sort out which rules limit AI and which products push it on you.
- 1Reading a Presidential Action: Order, Fact Sheet, Plan or PledgeTell an executive order from a fact sheet, a plan, a proclamation and an agency rule, find the parts of an order that actually bind anyone, and check its deadlines against what happened.16 min
- 2The Energy Orders: Emergency, Dominance, Coal, Nuclear and the GridRead what the 2025 and 2026 energy orders actually direct, from the national energy emergency and the coal and grid orders to the August 2026 emergency on foreign grid equipment, and follow one order into a real utility bill fight.19 min
- 3The AI Orders: From Revoking EO 14110 to 'Super Intelligence'Walk the federal AI actions of 2025 and 2026 in order, from the day-one revocation of the Biden AI order through the AI Action Plan, the 'woke AI' procurement order, the Genesis Mission, the June 2026 frontier model security order and the September 2026 renaming order.19 min
- 4Data Centers on Federal Land: EO 14318, DOE Sites, Army Bases and the Ratepayer PledgeRead what the July 2025 data center permitting order actually changes, follow the DOE and Army site selections through October 2026, including Idaho National Laboratory, and see what the 2026 ratepayer pledge does and does not bind.18 min
- 5Who Is Behind It: Officials, Agencies, Companies and MoneyMatch each energy and AI order to the officials and agencies that carry it out, see which companies stand to gain from the site deals and the pledge, and follow the political money on both sides of the AI regulation fight.17 min
- 6The AI Slowdown: What the Evidence Shows as of October 2026Sort the evidence on an AI slowdown into spending, revenue, model progress and physical limits, name who argues each side, and see what a slowdown would mean for a local data center deal.18 min
- 7Rules That Limit AI: Idaho's Chatbot Law, the States and the Preemption FightRead Idaho's 2026 Conversational AI Safety Act section by section, see where it sits among state, federal and EU rules, and follow the federal effort to preempt state AI laws through its 2026 status.18 min
- 8AI You Did Not Ask For: Copilot, Recall, Search and Phone DefaultsFind out which AI features in Windows, Microsoft 365, Google Search and Android are on by default as of October 2026, which ones you can turn off or remove, and how, plus why no current law requires an opt-out.17 min
- 9Checking the Claims and Tracking What Comes NextTest common claims about the energy, AI and data center orders against the documents, write a one-sentence description any side would accept as accurate, and keep a calendar of the deadlines due from late 2026 into 2028.16 min