AI data-center demand is reviving U.S. nuclear energy. The ADVANCE Act modernizes licensing and startups advance SMRs, but cost, supply-chain, and workforce gaps remain, with the Rust Belt favorably positioned.

In his recent book Political Automation: An Introduction to AI in Government and Its Impact on Citizens (Oxford University Press, 2025), Professor Eduardo Albrecht explores the tension between technology and government. Rather than treating artificial intelligence as a tool to be regulated within existing democratic frameworks, he approaches it as a structural force that is quietly reconfiguring political power itself.