David Sachs

You need 60 votes in the Senate.

It has to be bipartisan to to a certain degree.

So but we're going to try and see if we can work to get that consensus.

Well, there's pushback in Congress to the idea of preemption without a federal standard.

So in other words, you can't replace something with nothing.

This is sort of the thing that we heard repeatedly.

But I think there is quite a bit of interest in both the House and the Senate towards having, again, some sort of lightweight federal standard.

But we're still in the early stages of those conversations, and we're going to see what we can try and get done this year.

Yeah.

I mean, we got a letter recently from Bernie Sanders saying, stop all data centers, all data center development.

And if we do that, we will lose the AI race.

I mean, you do need this infrastructure.

Other countries are building out this infrastructure.

China's building out.

I think they're spinning up

a new nuclear power plant or coal plant, new energy every single week.

And a lot of that is going to power their data center.

So it would fundamentally, I think, cripple the United States in the AI race if we just stopped building data centers altogether.

At the same time, there are concerns about affordability, about whether consumers would have to pay a higher electrical rate because of data centers.

President Trump's been really clear that consumers should not have to pay higher rates for electricity because of data centers.