DeSantis governing like an adult with a calculator, leads country with AI data center bill

While blue-state politicians are busy hosting climate summits, renaming highways and explaining why your electric bill doubled, Gov. Ron DeSantis is doing something increasingly rare in American politics: governing like an adult with a calculator. This week, DeSantis rolled out a pair of measures aimed squarely at one of the next great political fights in America — hyperscale AI data centers gobbling up electricity, water and land while ordinary residents get stuck with the bill. And unlike the performative governing out of California or New York, Florida’s approach is brutally simple: protect taxpayers first. “This bill I think is the...