On May 1, William Willis covered Portland General Electric announcing plans to build the second-largest battery storage system in the United States, an EU committee reaching an agreement on an AI regulation act and the Montana governor seeking to expand the TikTok ban to other social media apps. He also talked about Microsoft opening cloud data processing centers in Poland. Finally, he previewed articles from DevOps.com, Digital CxO and Security Boulevard, which covered Mezmo adding a free community plan to its Telemetry Pipeline service, how software devs are embracing AI and a report showing how LockBit continues to be the most prolific ransomware threat actor in Q1 2023.