States move to slow AI infrastructure builds

New York considers a three-year data center pause

New York is talking about stopping new data centers for three years.

State lawmakers introduced a bill to pause permits tied to building and operating new data centers, and Wired says New York is at least the sixth state to consider similar moves. The push is getting weirdly bipartisan: Bernie Sanders wants a national pause, Ron DeSantis is warning about higher bills, and an open letter signed by 230 environmental groups urges Congress to step in.

This could slow the rush. Utilities are nervous. What jumps out is the politics: lawmakers are treating data centers less like “jobs projects” and more like grid risks that show up on everyone’s monthly bill.
Krueger’s “bubble” comment reads like a warning that communities could get stuck paying for upgrades after the hype cycle moves on.

If New York does this, other states will copy it, especially where power is already tight and ratepayers feel squeezed.
You can almost hear the transformer hum behind Hochul’s “Energize NY Development” promise that big users will “pay their fair share.”

If AI demand keeps climbing, who actually gets told “no”?

Reviewly tries to automate the review habit

Reviewly is betting that reviews fail because nobody remembers to ask.

Reviewly.ai sells SMS-based automation for Google reviews, plus reputation management and AI-suggested replies, aimed at small businesses that don’t want another dashboard.
It also pushes QR and NFC collection so customers can leave a review right after service, and the pitch leans on the stat that 93% of consumers read reviews before picking a local business.

This is a very practical wedge: turning a messy, “I’ll do it later” task into a repeatable system that runs from a phone. The strongest idea here is timing, not wording. If the trigger is truly tied to the moment satisfaction is highest, that’s where you get consistent weekly volume instead of random bursts.
A dashboard-less product sounds like marketing, but it’s actually a constraint that fits how most owners work: between calls, in the shop, with the register beeping.

If tools like this spread, local search becomes even more of a cadence game: fresh reviews plus steady owner responses.
The risk is sameness. If AI starts shaping review language and replies too much, platforms may discount it or consumers may tune it out.

If everyone automates reviews, what will “real” feedback look like next year?

AWS hits its fastest growth in 13 quarters

AWS is growing fast again.

Amazon says AWS brought in $35.6B in Q4 2025 revenue, up 24% year over year, its strongest quarterly growth rate in more than three years.
Operating income rose to $12.5B from $10.6B a year earlier, and Andy Jassy pointed to new deals with Salesforce, BlackRock, Perplexity, and the U.S. Air Force.

The number that matters is the base: 24% growth on a $142B annual run rate means AWS is gaining dollars faster than anyone else, even if rivals post flashier percentages on smaller businesses. You can feel how physical this race is when AWS says it added more than a gigawatt of power to its data center network in the quarter.
That’s the quiet tell: this is less about product announcements and more about who can secure power, chips, and capacity without blowing up costs.

Investors still flinched, with shares down 10% after-hours, because Amazon plans to ramp capex and missed EPS expectations.
If spend keeps climbing, AWS will need to prove that today’s AI-driven demand turns into sticky, long-lived workloads.

At what point does “adding capacity every day” start to look like overbuilding?

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