Chip Pickering
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CEO of @INCOMPAS, Former Member of Congress (R-MS), Great City Foundation, Teacher at Ole Miss, Thankful for family.
Joined February 2014
Jeff Bezos just explained the “AI bubble” better than anyone. At Italian Tech Week 2025, Bezos didn’t deny the hype, he embraced it. “Yes, there’s a bubble. But AI is real and it’s going to transform every single industry.” He called it an industrial bubble, not a financial
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Paid Program: Beyond the Grid: How Google’s Data Centers Power AI and Communities
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Addressing critical questions of electrical capacity in the AI economy.
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Greg Ortyl and Joe Scattareggia with @UnitiGroupInc discuss benefits of Uniti-Windstream merger and fiber opportunities with hyperscalers and data centers for the new Uniti Wholesale with @ChipPickering to open #INCOMPAS25
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https://t.co/e6UThrQUjP reported rising revenue and profit for the third quarter, propelled by strong retail sales as well as continued growth in its cloud-computing and AI business
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The e-commerce giant said Amazon Web Services is growing at its fastest rate since 2022, driven by AI. Shares surged in after-hours trading.
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College Football Icon Believes Lane Kiffin Should Stay At Ole Miss, Avoid LSU Tigers
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Brian Kelly is out as the head coach in Baton Rouge after being relieved of his duties on Sunday night with another SEC job opening this fall. The coaching caro
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Exclusive: OpenAI's 2026 policy vision
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OpenAI's big idea is that this isn't just about AI — it's America's shot at reindustrialization.
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The real reason electricity prices are rising, and it’s not data centers - The Washington Post
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It’s not data centers or AI, it’s something else.
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Foreign digital regulations like France’s DST disproportionately target American companies. France’s plan to hike its digital tax threatens to degrade US innovation and leave consumers worse off. We appreciate @RepJasonSmith's efforts to protect U.S. technological leadership.
America finally has an administration that staunchly defends American innovators and producers. If France moves forward with raising Digital Service Taxes that indiscriminately target American digital companies, the Ways and Means Committee stands ready to work with President
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Zayo snaps up seasoned energy exec as its new COO
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Zayo’s new president and COO Chris Brown has a sizable background in energy and private investmentHe’s a good fit given the fiber biz is pretty similar to run | Zayo hired Chris Brown, an exec with...
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The AI race is driving an energy Wild West that is reshaping American power. “We want as much flexibility in our power supply as we can get.”
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Utilities are pushing to increase supply, but meeting the surge in demand won’t be easy or fast. Tech companies aren’t waiting around.
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Well said by @SenEricSchmitt this morning in @SenateCommerce: “in the EU, the Digital Services Act is creating a censorship regime that would make communist China blush.” The EU’s Digital Services Act establishes a censorship regime that puts freedom of speech on the internet at
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) presided over the Senate Commerce Committee hearing titled “Shut Your App: How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans.” In his...
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True competition in the marketplace, not government mandated restructuring, is what drives innovation and benefits consumers. Successful and innovative companies should be encouraged, not dismantled.
The remedy trial for @JusticeATR’s bid to break @Google’s ad tech has underscored a critical principle: innovation should be encouraged, not dismantled. DOJ’s untested remedies risk harming the businesses that depend on affordable ads to reach customers. https://t.co/U7zAeoFwDd
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The US can’t just invent a future with AI — it must deploy it.
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If we want to win the AI deployment race and lead the world in critical technologies, we need to get these tools into peoples’ hands.
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Hopefully, regulators will listen to feedback from stakeholders and incorporate changes that protect the digital tools consumers have long relied on and ensure that companies can continue to innovate and deliver the best products and services for their users.
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As the European Commission considers feedback on the DMA’s harmful impact as part of their review of the law, it’s important to recognize the damage digital trade barriers like it have caused consumers and American tech companies' ability to innovate. https://t.co/ftZzFxpm5k
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DMA’s discriminatory measures are part of a larger trend of foreign governments unfairly singling out U.S.-based businesses, actions that risk far-reaching harm to American consumers, innovation, and...
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Don’t Blame Data Centers for Rising Electric Bills | RealClearEnergy
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Rarely, if ever, do our nation’s most complex public policy problems have a singular cause. Such is the case of rising power bills across the country, and the misleading narrative that elect
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Celebrating Jack and Molly with Henry and Georgie Barbour. My Mother is in the center and Today is my Mother’s Birthday 🎉 !!!
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