Fluidstack
Government Relations Lead
Austin, TX. Posted 2 days ago
The role
The Government Relations Lead will own the state and local policy agenda regarding AI infrastructure, tax incentives, utilities, and resource use. This person will draft policy materials and build relationships with state and local officials to support data center development.
What you will do
- Own Fluidstack's state and local policy agenda across AI infrastructure, tax incentives, utilities, and resource use.
- Draft and deliver testimony, regulatory comments, briefing documents, and coalition communications.
- Build and maintain relationships with state congressional leaders, governor’s offices, state and local regulators, and advocacy groups.
- Work with site development and utilities teams on data center permitting, grid interconnection, and state-level utility approvals.
- Track legislation and regulatory shifts.
- Brief leadership on political risk.
- Shape outcomes in favor of the company before they turn into blockers.
- Build relationships in state capitols to move projects forward and head off opposition.
- Earn trust within communities where data centers are located.
Required qualifications
- Comprehensive understanding of political dynamics surrounding digital infrastructure, energy, land use, water use, and technology regulations in frontier markets.
- Experience creating and delivering testimony, regulatory comments, briefing documents, or coalition communications in a fast-paced, future-facing, constantly evolving political landscape.
- Ability to leverage strong existing relationships in relevant policy communities such as committee staff or officials, regulators, industry orgs, and advocates for digital infrastructure.
- Experience translating complex ideas into straightforward, plain language understandable to diverse stakeholders.
About the company
Fluidstack is focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else by acquiring power, designing and building data centers, and operating them. They aim to build civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.