Tyler Katzenberger

Sacramento

Tech Policy Reporter at POLITICO

Sacramento tech reporter @politico. Cheesehead, Packers fan & proud alum @journalsentinel, @dailycardinal, @uwmadison. “Grammar is a piano I play by ear"

Articles

E&E News: Abundance clashes with affordability in California’s data center debate

1 week ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Camille von Kaenel |Tyler Katzenberger

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States are trying to save local news from Big Tech. Trump isn’t helping.

1 week ago | politico.com | Tyler Katzenberger

Local lawmakers are struggling to support cash-strapped newsrooms as Washington slashes funds. The efforts are ratcheting up in the face of a multifaceted challenge from the Trump administration, already hostile to traditional journalism outlets.
Tech-savvy California is still figuring out data centers

1 week ago | politico.com | Camille von Kaenel |Tyler Katzenberger

Sacramento lawmakers are torn between embracing the industry and regulating it. Data centers are increasingly feasting on power in California. | Jenny Kane/AP SACRAMENTO, California — For a state that considers itself a leader in both tech and climate, California is falling behind in both building data centers and putting guardrails around their environmental impacts.
LA protests fuel California drive to hide data from Trump

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Tyler Katzenberger

Privacy advocates fear Trump agencies could use location data to target dissidents. President Donald Trump's response to anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles is fueling fears his administration could leverage location data in immigration raids and investigations of demonstrators.
Newsom floats withholding federal taxes as Trump threatens California

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Tyler Katzenberger

His comments came amid reports Trump is weighing “large-scale” funding cancellations for the Golden State. California Gov. Gavin Newsom floated withholding federal tax dollars amid reports Trump is preparing funding cuts targeting his state. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday suggested California consider withholding tens of billions in annual federal tax dollars amid reports Donald Trump is preparing funding cuts targeting the state.
Crypto group with Trump ties finds friends in California

4 weeks ago | politico.com | Tyler Katzenberger

The group is sponsoring a California Democrat’s crypto bill after successes in red states. A nonprofit with ties to President Donald Trump is sponsoring pro-crypto legislation from a California Democrat. | Mark Humphrey/AP SACRAMENTO, California — A nonprofit with ties to Donald Trump is sponsoring state legislation from a Democrat in deep-blue California on an issue the president has embraced in his Oval Office comeback: cryptocurrency.
California, Google rework first-in-nation journalism deal amid state deficit

1 month ago | politico.com | Tyler Katzenberger |Christine Mui

Google, for now, will drop its 2025 contribution to a fund to support local newsrooms to $10 million from $15 million, matching California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s rollback in his latest state budget plan. A sign is displayed on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, California, on Sept. 24, 2019. | Jeff Chiu/AP SACRAMENTO, California — A landmark deal to funnel millions of dollars into California newsrooms risks being downsized after Gov.
California, Google rework first-in-nation journalism deal amid state deficit

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Tyler Katzenberger |Christine Mui

SACRAMENTO, California — A landmark deal to funnel millions of dollars into California newsrooms risks being downsized after Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed funding cuts and Google, the initiative’s main corporate partner, slashed a third of its original commitment on Wednesday. Google, for now, will drop its 2025 contribution to the program to $10 million from $15 million.
How to governor-proof an initiative

1 month ago | politico.com | Emily Schultheis |Will McCarthy |Tyler Katzenberger

Gov. Gavin Newsom drew the ire of those who backed two 2024 ballot measures, Propositions 35 and 36, in his May revised budget proposal. | AP WHAT BALLOT MANDATE? — Supporters of last year’s two most popular statewide ballot initiatives found that spending tens of millions of dollars to qualify and pass their proposals wasn’t enough to keep the measures’ most high-profile critic, Gov. Gavin Newsom, from disregarding them in his latest budget proposal.
Newsom makes room for tech priorities despite budget woes

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Christine Mui |Tyler Katzenberger

SACRAMENTO, California — Gavin Newsom based much of his latest budget presentation around distinguishing himself from Washington, blaming the “Trump slump” from tariffs in part for the state’s $12 billion deficit and knocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. But there was less daylight between the California governor and the president when it came to his embrace of the Golden State’s prized tech sector.