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As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI. Now, after winning a tight congressional race for Nancy Pelosi\u2019s open San Francisco seat, he could play a key role in setting federal AI policy.<\/p>\n
I spoke with Wiener only a few hours after he had been declared the victor. But he was already thinking about AI risk: during our 20-minute conversation, he used the phrase \u201crecursive self-improvement\u201d half a dozen times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to slow this down,\u201d he told me. \u201cBecause it\u2019s moving very quickly, and we could sleepwalk into a disaster.\u201d Still, he describes himself as only \u201ccautiously optimistic\u201d about Congress\u2019s ability to rein in AI. Here\u2019s what he plans to do about it.<\/p>\n
\u2014James O\u2019Donnell<\/em><\/p>\n As voters went to the polls across the US last week, I was in Ashburn, Virginia, part of what\u2019s known as Data Center Alley\u2014the world\u2019s largest data center hub. It\u2019s also where the backlash sweeping the country arguably first began to take shape.<\/p>\n Big Tech has framed the data center uproar as a culture war over progress. But a few days in Ashburn convinced me the real fault line may be electricity: drawing it from the grid or generating it onsite provokes different forms of blowback.<\/p>\n The industry can improve its image, but it can\u2019t escape the consequences of its enormous appetite for electricity. Find out why.\u00a0<\/p>\n This story<\/strong> is from The Algorithm, our weekly AI newsletter.<\/strong> Sign up<\/strong> to receive it in your inbox every Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n #Download #Pelosis #successor #targets #data #centers #face #power #woes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1757,1265,803,1092,15122,168,6750,2385,15131,15030],"class_list":["post-25536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-centers","tag-data","tag-download","tag-face","tag-pelosis","tag-power","tag-successor","tag-targets","tag-the-download-pelosis-successor-targets-ai-and-data-centers-face-power-woes","tag-woes"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GettyImages-2303769670.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GettyImages-2303769670-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GettyImages-2303769670-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GettyImages-2303769670-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GettyImages-2303769670-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GettyImages-2303769670.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GettyImages-2303769670.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GettyImages-2303769670-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GettyImages-2303769670-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}