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Oregon pauses data center air and water permits until July 2027

Gov. Tina Kotek told the state environmental agency to pause air and water pollution permits for new or expanding data centers, and to stop processing city wastewater changes made to serve them. OPB says this effectively pauses most large data center development in the state. Amazon says it could cost thousands of jobs.

OPB · April Ehrlich · Oct 13, 2026

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Anthropic's modernization plugin rewrites legacy code and checks it

The Claude Code plugin analyzes a legacy codebase, writes a plan you approve, rebuilds or upgrades the code, then runs old and new on the same inputs and reports PROVEN, PARTLY PROVEN or NOT PROVEN. The legacy source is left untouched and a person signs off at set points. The README says to start with one module as a pilot.

For controls and plant IT teams: this targets software codebases (the post and README name no industrial languages), so it fits old in-house tools such as reporting or data-handling code, not PLC logic. Pilot on one small module.