Jun 24 · Three Florida counties slap one-year moratoriums on data centers as

Florida's data center revolt is the story this morning. Three counties, Orange, Lake, and Marion, have passed one-year moratoriums on new data center construction, citing strain on water, power, and land use that local governments simply can't evaluate fast enough. The AI build-out is moving faster than zoning can keep up, and Florida just became the test case for whether local governance can throttle hyperscaler expansion. Coverage via the Orlando Sentinel and Florida Politics. The rest of the brief: - The White House issued executive orders directing federal agencies to accelerate post-quantum cryptographic migration, hardening systems against future quantum decryption. Reuters and Nextgov have the order text and agency deadlines. - A joint Five Eyes advisory warns frontier AI models could enable catastrophic cyberattacks within months. Separately, parts of NSA have lost access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 after the White House imposed new supply-chain restrictions on commercial AI vendors. Reporting from The Record and Bloomberg. - Kim Jong-un announced North Korea is arming its navy with nuclear weapons and constructing 10,000-ton warships. My assessment is this changes the Indo-Pacific calculus more than the rhetoric suggests, since a nuclear-armed DPRK surface fleet complicates every US carrier movement west of Guam. Yonhap and NK News. - China detained two Japanese nationals on rare-earth smuggling allegations. Beijing is signaling it'll use criminal enforcement, not just export controls, to police critical-minerals flows. Nikkei Asia. - The Supreme Court declined to revive a Falun Gong torture suit against Cisco over surveillance gear sold to Chinese authorities. The ruling narrows Alien Tort Statute reach for corporate defendants. SCOTUSblog has the order. - The Trump administration approved $17.5 billion in loan guarantees for ten new large-scale nuclear plants, explicitly tied to AI data center demand. The Department of War and Department of Energy framed it as grid security. Wall Street Journal. - Senator Mark Warner introduced legislation barring non-confirmed acting Directors of National Intelligence, aimed squarely at Bill Pulte's dual-hat role at ODNI and FHFA. Politico and Punchbowl. Voiced by Pip. Synthesized and assembled with AI tools. Produced and edited by Anna R. Dudley. Sources cited inline.