Technology

I think there's some confusion over the intent here.

Lawmakers in state capitals across the country [...]

So based on this, Google is using "state" here to mean a US state and not the more general meaning of government.

For large corporations like Google, each state having its own local regulations (e.g. privacy regulations such as CCPA) is expensive because they have to account for different rules in different places, which means whole teams of legal experts just to be familiar with each state's regulations and interpret what they mean for operating the business.

It's also problematic in a technical sense, because on the internet how do you know if a particular user is a legal resident of Texas or Colorado or New Hampshire, and would even knowing that be a violation of their privacy rights?

So the intent here is to push federal regulation over state regulation, because it makes the legal and technical problems simpler.

Ultimately this is an argument against the way the Republican party does things, where they reject federal regulations saying that the states should be allowed to regulate themselves and that federal regulation is an overreach. This leads to weaker protections for citizens and weaker enforcement, which is the Republican party's real intent. Every US citizen should have privacy protections, not just residents of California.