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Tech bills of the week: No data centers on public lands; Creating a VA Office of Innovation; and more
Why it’s here: A weekly roundup bundling several unrelated bills, though many items (data center policy, frontier AI regulation, drone counter-measures, space-based compute) are squarely in scope; the roundup format triggers rejection under the rules.
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YesterdayNextgov/FCWTech bills of the week: No data centers on public lands; Creating a VA Office of Innovation; and moreNextgov rounds up a week of tech-related bills, including Rep. Dexter's bill to bar new data centers on Interior and Forest Service lands and a proposal to create a VA Office of Innovation.1 outletAI7 linked
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