Broadband Breakfast on Nov. 25, 2025: What to Expect at Broadband and AI
This preview session on Nov. 25 will feature two of the moderators during 'Broadband and AI in the Next Congress'
The debates over artificial intelligence, data centers and broadband will be entering a new phase when the 120th Congress begins on January 3, 2027. Communities have been weighing the costs and benefits of new computing facilities, states are writing their own AI rules, and Congress faces pressure to decide where Washington should act.
On Wednesday, November 25, six days before Broadband and AI in the Next Congress, two of the four journalists moderating panels at the in-person event on December 1 will join us for a preview session "What to Expect at 'Broadband and AI in the Next Congress'."
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Lauren Feiner, senior policy reporter at The Verge, will be moderating the Dec. 1 panel on the data center power crisis. We’ll ask her what she’s watching as AI companies seek more electricity, communities worry about rising bills, and policymakers consider who should pay for a bigger grid. Are voluntary commitments from technology companies enough to protect consumers?
Rebecca Kern, senior correspondent at The Capitol Forum, will be moderating the Dec. 1 panel on the competing roles of Washington and the states in AI regulation. Drawing on her years covering technology policy, she’ll help us explore whether Congress will in fact choose to establish a single national framework, whether states will remain free to write their own rules, and what’s at stake for consumers and the industry.
Panelists:
- Lauren Feiner, Senior Policy Reporter, The Verge
- Rebecca Kern, Senior Correspondent, The Capitol Forum
- Drew Clark (moderator), CEO and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast
Lauren Feiner is the senior policy reporter at The Verge, where she covers the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill from Washington, D.C. Prior to that, she spent five years at CNBC, where she covered the Google search antitrust trial, industry lobbying, tech Supreme Court cases, and many efforts to enact new privacy, antitrust, and content moderation laws. When she’s not writing about Congress, she’s probably catching up on her many podcasts on 2x speed.
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Rebecca Kern is a senior correspondent at The Capitol Forum, covering antitrust and competition issues on Capitol Hill and the White House. . She has more than 15 years of experience reporting on technology policy and politics in Washington, including previous roles at POLITICO and Bloomberg Government. Her reporting has covered social media platforms, children's online safety, data privacy, cybersecurity and the legal protections afforded to technology companies. Kern also served as a public affairs officer at the Federal Trade Commission under Chair Lina Khan, where she oversaw communications concerning major technology enforcement actions, including the agency's children's privacy case against TikTok. She holds a degree in journalism from American University.
Breakfast Media LLC CEO Drew Clark (moderator) has led the Broadband Breakfast community since 2008. An early proponent of better broadband, better lives, he initially founded the Broadband Census crowdsourcing tool to collect and verify broadband data left unpublished by the Federal Communications Commission. As CEO and Publisher, Clark presides over the leading media community advocating for higher-capacity internet everywhere through topical, timely and intelligent coverage. Clark also served as head of the Partnership for a Connected Illinois, a state broadband initiative.
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