“Look, Lord knows data centers poll about as well as measles, mumps, and rubella. But the truth is we critically need all that money that hyperscalers can invest in the grid if we are going to transition from a fossil fuel economy. And if we do this right, we can leverage those resources and protect local communities. We just need federal rules in place that protect local communities, protect ratepayers, and elicit the investment we need from the hyperscalers into the grid.”

…have failed. I have some ideas about how we can do it much better. But this is a moment when we've got to enable millions of Americans to see a pathway, and it has to be a real pathway in an AI-enabled economy because we are not going to order back the sea of AI. No matter how much we may try, it is coming at us and we've got to be much more prepared. So I think in and around data centers, look, Lord knows data centers poll about as well as Measles, Mumps, and Rubella. But the truth is we critically need all that money that hyperscalers can invest in the grid if we are going to transition from a fossil fuel economy. And if we do this right, we can leverage those resources and protect local communities. We just need federal rules in place that protect local communities, protect ratepayers, and elicit the investment we need from the hyperscalers into the grid. And I think we can have the data centers we need for infrastructure. We've got to