The DC Pipeline

Intelligence for the people who build the cloud. Weekly intel on where the $800B data center buildout money is going.

Sep 26, 2026

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11 min read

One Monday

September 21: Newsom signed all seven bills, Abbott halted every Texas data center permit and vowed to kill the incentives, and Spartanburg passed a moratorium that exempts the project it was written to stop. Plus: five markets written into this week's rules.

Edem Agbley

Sep 17, 2026

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7 min read

The Capital Blinks

Loudoun County has 250 data centers and gets 39% of its budget from them. On Tuesday night it voted 7-1-1 to pause new applications for a year. Virginia goes on downgrade watch.

Edem Agbley

Sep 12, 2026

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9 min read

The September Surprise

Two verdicts land on September 30: Newsom's pen and PJM's $555 auction. A leaked Republican memo calls data centers a "sleeper issue." And the world's first biological data center runs on 16 million living human brain cells.

Edem Agbley

Sep 5, 2026

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7 min read

The Night the Money Lost

Past midnight on the session's final night, California passed all seven data center bills over the biggest lobbying push in the fight's history. Then the President weighed in, and the Governor fired back.

Edem Agbley

Aug 28, 2026

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7 min read

"Dug Their Own Grave"

Nine months after crowning Texas the AI epicenter, Abbott says data center companies "dug their own grave" and deserve the backlash. Plus: seven California bills go to votes this week, and the biggest industry spender in Sacramento isn't Big Tech, it's PG&E.

Edem Agbley

Aug 21, 2026

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7 min read

The First Downgrade

Twenty-one days after we put Texas on downgrade watch, the watch triggered: Abbott froze data center approvals statewide, pending an audit with no clock. Texas and New York, the two poles of American politics, are now both Frozen.

Edem Agbley

The DC Pipeline

One Monday

The Capital Blinks

The September Surprise

The Night the Money Lost

"Dug Their Own Grave"

The First Downgrade

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