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Autonomous Drones are called hunter killers in terminator!

REJECT THE WHITE NATIONALISTS. TIM O'HARE IS BULLSHIT.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in November 2025 called Texas the epicenter of AI development while announcing a $40 billion Google investment and sales-tax exemptions. On August 3, 2026 he ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to freeze new grid-connection approvals until an audit of power, water, cooling, tax breaks, and ownership. The Texas Tribune counted at least 335 operating centers and 248 planned; ERCOT’s queue held more than 1,800 projects and about 474 gigawatts, with Abbott saying roughly 90 percent were data centers. On ABC’s This Week August 23 he said developers “dug their own grave” and must win local approval. State law still lets a site start without Austin’s sign-off; the choke point is the plug. Public Citizen Texas director Adrian Shelley called it a “faux pause” that does not stop land clearing, sub-75 MW workarounds, or off-grid gas plants. Abbott faces Democrat Gina Hinojosa in November.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Executive Order 62 on July 14, 2026, pausing DEC discretionary permits for new 50-megawatt-plus hyperscale sites for up to a year while DPS writes a Generic Environmental Impact Statement. NYISO’s queue as of May 2026 held nearly 12 gigawatts of data-center load, more than 8 GW added in 2025. Hochul is separately seeking repeal of sales-tax exemptions. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2026-05 on August 18 after GRID rules stalled in the Senate. DEP will not review permits without local approval and a binding GRID consent order; data centers are off Fast Track; state agencies may not sign NDAs; the sales-tax exemption is conditioned on GRID. Shapiro said more than 100 proposals were circulating and five had operating permits; he is running against Stacy Garrity, who called for a pause.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on May 27, 2026 told the Tax Credit Authority to stop new data-center sales-and-use tax exemptions while a joint committee studies the industry. The break cost nearly $1.6 billion in 2025 against a $136 million projection; prior multi-year deals remain. DeWine is term-limited and did not ban construction. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 484 on May 7, 2026, barring utilities from shifting large-load infrastructure costs onto residential bills and preserving local zoning, after the state extended a data-center sales-tax exemption through 2037 at a $150 million / 100 MW threshold. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a May 29, 2026 order raising the bar on water, rates, and the Great Salt Lake after the Stratos/MIDA fight and later called that process “not good.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued no statewide pause; he has said hyperscalers should pay their share after vetoing a 2025 water-disclosure bill.

The sequence is the record. Exemptions and ribbon-cuttings came first. Audits and “guardrails” arrived after interconnection queues, bill-shock reporting, town fights, and midterm calendars. None of these orders repeal existing tax statutes, finish a GEIS, or cap off-grid generation. Households and adjacent towns carry the load and water risk; governors keep the option to restart approvals after November. Read New York Executive Order 62, Pennsylvania Executive Order 2026-05, Abbott’s August 3 letter to PUCT and ERCOT, Ohio’s May 27 Tax Credit Authority directive, and Florida Chapter 2026-65 (SB 484). The remaining handhold is local zoning, utility-rate cases, and whether a legislature writes the pause into statute instead of leaving it as an executive press release.

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No 62: Establishing a Temporary Moratorium on Data Centers in New York While the State Develops Higher Standards for Data Center Development and Benefits Blueprint to Support Localities

https://www.governor.ny.gov/executive-order/no-62-establishing-temporary-moratorium-data-centers-new-york-while-state-develops

Official July 14, 2026 order pausing DEC permits for 50 MW-plus data centers until a Generic Environmental Impact Statement is finished and citing nearly 12 GW in the NYISO queue.

First Statewide Moratorium on New Hyperscale Data Centers Launched by Governor Kathy Hochul

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/first-statewide-moratorium-new-hyperscale-data-centers-launched-governor-kathy-hochul

Hochul’s July 14, 2026 announcement of the one-year permit pause, a Community Investment Framework, and a push to repeal sales-tax exemptions.

Data center approvals in Texas halted until audits completed, Gov. Greg Abbott says

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/texas-data-center-project-audit-greg-abbott/

August 3, 2026 report of Abbott’s PUCT/ERCOT audit freeze, 335 operating and 248 planned Texas sites, a 474 GW queue, and on-site generation that can bypass the grid plug.

Abbott explains data center pivot

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/23/greg-abbott-texas-data-centers-01046867

August 23, 2026 account of Abbott’s ABC This Week remarks, the November 2025 Google $40 billion “epicenter” event, the local-approval demand, and the midterm setting.

Governor Shapiro Signs Executive Order on Data Center Development in PA

https://www.pa.gov/governor/newsroom/2026-press-releases/governor-shapiro-signs-executive-order-on-data-center-developmen

Official August 18, 2026 release on Executive Order 2026-05: GRID as a binding DEP condition, Fast Track removal, NDA ban, local-approval gate, and sales-tax exemption tied to compliance.

Ohio suspends data center tax break as tech firms face pressure to pay the cost to power AI

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-data-centers-taxes-tech-ohio-4d56561a14f9b0d00553001e8c2757a3

AP report on DeWine’s May 2026 Tax Credit Authority pause, the $1.6 billion 2025 exemption cost versus a $136 million projection, and the fact that construction itself is not banned.

Governor signs legislation more tightly regulating data centers

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/795295-gov-desantis-signs-legislation-more-tightly-regulating-data-centers/

May 7, 2026 signing of SB 484 requiring large-load data centers to cover their own utility infrastructure costs and preserving local land-use control.

Cox signs new order for data center development after public outcry

https://www.ksl.com/article/51504319/cox-signs-new-order-for-data-center-development-after-public-outcry

May 29, 2026 report of Gov. Spencer Cox’s order raising evaluation standards on water, rates, and the Great Salt Lake after the Stratos/MIDA backlash.

Faux Pause: Why Greg Abbott’s data center ‘crackdown’ looks a lot like election-year theater

https://www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-news/faux-pause-why-greg-abbotts-data-center-crackdown-looks-a-lot-like-election-year-theater/

August 2026 Public Citizen critique that Abbott’s audit does not halt land work, smaller sites, or off-grid plants and lands during his race against Gina Hinojosa.

Trump's Deadline To Cut Electricity Prices in Half Has Arrived - Rates Are Up At Least 18% On Average.

US Gas Prices Reached The Highest Ever Recorded For August.

"An unearthed NASA image of Mars has captured a strange object in the distance, which some have suggested was a jellyfish-like being or mechanical device.

NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been investigating whether Mars could have supported microbial life for the last 14 years, snapped the image on August 20, 2023 at around 6.27pm ET.

It shows the dusty Martian landscape with rocky hills and large mountains.  

However, the panorama also revealed a small figure in the left corner that appeared to have a large black body perched atop two spindly legs.

Fueling speculation that NASA’s rover had captured something moving across Mars, images taken of the same area less than a minute earlier showed no sign of the mysterious figure. 

Moreover, the photo with the object was the last image posted on NASA's website for that day. The next picture from Curiosity was taken nearly two hours later with the camera pointed in a different direction."

The before and after photos are both in the Daily Mail article. Does look very suspicious and hard to think what else it could be, based on the landscape.

Article - https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16050031/nasa-mars-photo-jellyfish-life-theories.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus

Edit: link to NASA photo - https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1250462/?site=msl