“It would be highly ironic if the first action Congress took after an election largely defined by opposition to data centers would be to make it easier to build them.” - @billmckibben.bsky.social on #BAAJA

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"The Senate's bipartisan permit reform bill would upend the National Environmental Policy Act and also weaken the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act." Legal analysis from Michael Gerrard, Columbia Law scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scho...

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Don't succumb to the weird combination of Technobabble triumphalism peddled by the bill's biggest champions or to the political cynicism & defeatism that underpins the "if we don't get this, we get nothing" trope. It's all bullshit. You don't surrender to win. You fight to win. 👊🏼✊🏼💪🏼

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And that post-11/3 change is not just the death of this bad bill (it really is bad & not a close call to oppose unless you're panicking) but real mojo to get shit done that makes a real difference—not just capitulate, as BAAJA does, to capital & markets (driven by AI). We can win this fight.

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My instinct reading the tea leaves: (1) BAAJA has momentum that may prove ephemeral b/c; (2) it's momentum is not so much a function of the bill's merits; but rather (3) reactionary politics; & (4) hesitation to speak in opposition to Sens. Whitehouse & Heinrich. This will change after 11/3.

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