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Australia is consulting on national standards that would tie large data centers and frontier AI training to power, water, security, skills and community obligations. The proposal treats compute capacity as infrastructure whose public costs and benefits must be negotiated together.
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Brazil's new data center regime does more than suspend taxes.
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China's seven-agency digital-green plan links AI efficiency, data-center power, carbon data, smart-city operations and environmental enforcement, treating the digital economy as both a decarbonization tool and a resource-consuming sector.
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From 11 September, manufacturers selling products with digital elements in the EU must report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents through one ENISA platform under 24-hour and 72-hour deadlines.
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Indonesia’s ministers have signed the formal problem inventory for a One Data bill intended to strengthen a 2019 presidential regulation and connect standards, metadata and sharing across every level of government.
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France’s new Digital and AI Pact brings government and domestic technology suppliers into a three-year program to define needs, set standards, test products and build sovereign capability without bypassing public procurement.
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Massachusetts now requires data centers above 25 megawatts to secure local approval and meet state expectations on energy, water, infrastructure and community benefit before key state permits can advance.
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Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Municipalities and Housing has adopted uniform municipal requirements for standalone commercial data centers.
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The European Commission has designated ChatGPT a very large online search engine, placing the service under the Digital Services Act’s strongest systemic-risk and accountability obligations.
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Japan's Environment Ministry has selected four data-center demonstrations covering waste-heat recovery, renewable cooling, workload optimization and direct-current protection.
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