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The data center buildout has allowed Loudoun County to lower property tax rates by 38% since 2010, translating to average savings of about $3,400 per year for homeowners.

“We’ve seen this strategy backfire in Europe and elsewhere—it would have potentially catastrophic impacts on our automotive industry, have ripple effects on our entire defense industrial base, and make every American less secure. We urge the President to stay tough against China and protect American auto manufacturers and workers.” - @averyaash, SAFE’s CEO

"For us, it always comes back to the overlap of our commercial and our defense needs. ... It’s about civil-military fusion, but in an authentically American way." Q&A with @Securing_Energy's new CEO, @averyaash in @POLITICOPro this morning via @jamepdx subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/1…

⛏️Failing to address the US’s processing chokepoint will cede further mineral dominance to China, leaving us reliant on an adversarial nation for our critical minerals. 🗓️Today, SAFE’s Abigail Hunter testifies at the House E&C hearing on critical mineral supply chains to urge calibrated and timely action from policymakers. 📽️Learn more and watch the testimony: energycommerce.house.gov/events/oversig… #CriticalMinerals #EnergySecurity #SupplyChains

Today, 12 of my Republican colleagues and I issued a joint statement in response to the Ways and Means Committee’s portion of reconciliation concerning clean energy tax credits. We ask House Leadership to consider 3 thoughtful changes as we move forward. Full statement here:

Some Republicans are asking whether to wait until 2025 with a trifecta to do energy permitting reform. But not only is a materially different bill not possible in the 119th Congress due to the political process and landscape, it's dangerous to delay it. - Hyperscalers are looking to site their largest, most important data centers overseas because they can't get the power and gas they need in the US - Consumers are seeing rising retail prices because it's too hard and takes too long to build energy infrastructure - RTOs and ISOs are all facing difficulty keeping reliability of the system given the growth in demand - Energy companies of all types are cancelling projects because of difficulty of permits The next Congress has many issues of higher priority to deal with. Even if/when it gets to it, the bill cannot go through reconciliation. It will need at least 7 Dem votes in the Senate. There is no chance a bill as imagined by certain conservative groups would get that. The issue would be stuck and the industry, and consumers, would be waiting years.

@RetroNewsNow I think about the origin story for this song regularly: youtu.be/V_h7Lm7C9Nk?si…

🏀On November 3, 1990, the National Basketball Association’s second partnership with NBC began with the debut of ‘NBA on NBC,’ featuring a game between the Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs. ‘Roundball Rock,’ the musical score for ‘NBA on NBC,’ was composed by John Tesh

Wild story. DC Police are asking a reporter to reveal sources on a story about how 911 is broken and mistakes may have led to an infant fatality. #FixDC911

More than a dozen House Republicans wrote to Speaker Mike Johnson asking him NOT to axe clean energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) if the GOP maintains or expands its House majority next year. thehill.com/policy/energy-…

Are you interested in safer streets around Petworth? There is a new group forming for neighbors who want to help with slower speeds, safer pedestrian options, and other improvements for all the different ways we all travel around Petworth. bit.ly/petworthforsaf…

With China dominating the #connectedvehicle supply chain and considering how to sell CVs in the US, the Commerce Dept ANPRM is an important step to consider national security risks and action needed to blunt them. @CoalitionReMo comments go deeper tinyurl.com/5cxecrcs

@AlexRoy144 Well now I wish I was

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Lamborghini just changed their logo yesterday to be way more bland. It reminded me that color is dying. It's being removed from our logos, our cities, our lives.

JB Straubel, Founder and CEO of @RedwoodMat, will join SC Gov. @henrymcmaster at #SAFESummit2024 for an insightful conversation on public policy and an advanced manufacturing renaissance. Register: SAFESummit.org

@brokeymcpoverty We just started watching ep 2 and I am SO excited to get your (and your mom’s) commentary

still early in but i feel like matthew is gonna say something racist bc he thinks AD is white 😬

just sat down to watch the latest season of love is blind with my mom, who has never seen it. shld be interesting

How can we expect to have a successful #SafeSystems and #VisionZero plan by @MurielBowser and @DDOTDC when we accept drivers flaunting foundational laws with impunity and removing the ability for accountability? DC has a major problem and it gets worse when the city won’t act

Europe's been a leader of connected, cooperative, and automated mobility technologies to enhance safety and access, reduce congestion, & promote sustainable #transportation systems. Join our virtual panel on #CCAM deployment in Europe w/ @paveeurope. pavecampaign.org/event/registra…

This amounts to a last-second save on a near own goal by the US on efforts to improve our transportation systems. Glad to see it, but this latest backlash should be a wakeup call re communications/collaboration efforts required for #AVs to be viewed as part of the solution #AB316

@yvkoff @Cruise 1. learning by this driver can't/doesn't get pushed to all other DC drivers and 2. driver skills do increase with practice during learning but also decline with age (e.g. generalized slowing). The contrast in reactions to two vehicles getting stuck in cement was striking

@yvkoff @Cruise Sorry I missed this reply earlier @yvkoff Human drivers can certainly (individually) learn from a mistake (I assume this taxi driver won't make it again soon). Point was 2-fold:

For all of the dunking on the ⁦@Cruise⁩ vehicle in SF getting stuck this week… I give you a counterpoint in DC. ADS are built to learn (across a fleet) from new experiences/mistakes and get better… human drivers not so much. popville.com/2023/08/helluv…