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Map: datacenterpolicymap.vercel.app
(best on desktop!)

Would love feedback, thoughts, and suggestions! this will update as legislation moves

AI runs on servers → Servers live in buildings → Buildings draw power, use water, and reshape local economies

hence they will affect all these things below:
→ AI infrastructure

→ Energy systems

→ Local government planning

→ Economic development

→ Public policy

Some notes about the map: it covers all 50 states - color coded by legislative stance, clickable for:

→ State summaries
→ Active bills
→ Data center counts
→ Policy sources

There will be a wave of new headlines and new bills in the coming months.

Opinions will form quickly. My goal is to provide a structured reference point as policy moves and the current debate evolves.

Map: datacenterpolicymap.vercel.app (best on desktop!)

Data centers have become one of the most contested pieces of infrastructure in the country.

As AI and cloud demand scale, nearly every state legislature is trying to figure out what to do about them.

🌐 U.S. Data Center Legislation Tracker

An interactive map tracking the political and legislative stance toward data centers across states.

reminds me of this tweet

> hosted a club about decentralized infrastructure
> attended UN delegate events, bridging emerging tech and multilateral institutions
> accidentally spent a lot of time thinking about global systems

yay 2025! looking forward to 2026 🤓

my 2025 wrapped:
> launched a research studio
> built a tool about clothes, fibers, and consumer systems
> wrote a 20-page report about the UN x OSS
> hacked on circular supply chains for critical minerals (and placed 2nd 🥈)
> supported women founders in crypto

Grateful to the organizers and fellow participants for their contributions, energy, ideas, and shared vision of peace. 🕊️🌍

Insights from the consultation will directly inform the upcoming Second Independent Progress Study on Youth, Peace, and Security, and UN Women's work linking the Women, Peace & Security and Youth, Peace & Security agendas.

Incredibly proud to have joined such inspiring discussions on how to co-develop solutions that strengthen peacebuilding and advancing both the Youth, Peace & Security (YPS) and Women, Peace & Security (WPS) agendas.

Honored to have joined global peers as part of the Young Women Peace Circle: Advancing Young Women’s Leadership in Peace and Security, organized by UN Women in collaboration with the United Nations Youth Office, the African Union, the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations

Grateful to the organizers, delegates, and peers for the thoughtful and hopeful conversations that remind us what collective leadership can look like 🌐

Coming from the decentralized tech world, I believe we’re building and advancing a digital future that honors every person and protects their sovereignty

Being in rooms alongside other leaders and peace builders from around the world is a privilege, and a responsibility to ask
→ Why care?
→ What now?
→ When I am in these rooms, what am I advocating for?

We came together to acknowledge that as the world transforms, so must our shared understanding of global governance and multilateralism

We came together to reflect on how we can renew the UN’s founding values of peace, human rights, and development for the leaders of tomorrow

At the United Nations’ 80th anniversary event, “Bridging Generations: Youth and Legacy in Multilateralism,” convened by the European Union Delegation to the United Nations, global leaders and changemakers came together to reflect

Grateful to the MGCY and the Third Committee Secretariat for this opportunity to learn, contribute, and represent a generation building toward systems that serve everyone better.

Looking forward to Friday and the conversations ahead! 🇺🇳🌐

The questions are similar across all contexts: Who gets a voice? Who controls resources? How do we coordinate at scale? How do we build systems that serve people, not just institutions?

My goal: contribute insights from decentralized tech and bring back perspectives from this convening into our industry. How can we build technologies that actually future-proof young people's lives - especially those in LDCs and SIDS who are most affected by governance failures?

I'm coming to this conversation from the emerging tech space, where we're building systems focused on financial sovereignty and individual empowerment. But I'm also coming to listen and learn from youth advocates working on the front lines of social development globally.

The theme: "Building Solutions Together for an Inclusive Future" - focusing on governance, social development, and youth participation in multilateral decision making.

Honored to share that I've been selected as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee Youth Event at UN Headquarters this Friday.

Grateful to reconnect with old friends & meet new ones. Special thanks to organizers & hosts!

→ When new issues collide with old infrastructure, we need innovative financial rails that don’t just fund capacity, but reimagine how it’s resourced.

→ Multilateral leadership is increasingly tested - in the absence of strong institutions, it’s politics + people that move tech forward.

→ UN reforms show the challenge of budget cuts + AI integration. What can ecosystems like Ethereum/crypto learn from inefficiency at global scale?

→ There is a clear divide in how the Global South vs Global North frame AI acceleration, digital policy, & emerging tech. Narratives matter.