Lawmakers are renewing calls for new safety guardrails on artificial intelligence after technology industry leaders sounded alarm bells, with calls for slowing some development potentially creating further headwinds for data center projects already drawing public resistance.
Growing calls for AI regulation could stall data center developments
Lawmakers, tech firms raise concerns that systems could run out of control
By Lou Hirsh
CoStar NewsSeptember 14, 2026 | 10:56 P.M.
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