For Oakland, AI governance isn’t an abstract and distant policy debate but an urgent issue. Positioned in the backyard of Silicon Valley, Oakland has become attractive to tech companies: from a proposed data center downtown to AI manufacturing startups and Tesla robotaxis in West Oakland’s historic American Steel Blocks building.   Technology expansion could reshape land use, power grids and municipal resources. Ensuring local control was a key topic at Oakland Tech Week, which wrapped up over the weekend, after a…