Doug Burgum
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One for heroics from a warrior from World War II and Korea War, who's 100 years old, and then someone who just weeks ago was courageously led the charge as one of our helicopter pilots when they were arresting Maduro.
So it spanned the whole 250 years.
But again, I would just say two takeaways.
Peace around the world, prosperity for Americans, affordability,
affordability, President Trump's policies, turning this country around in the last 12 months.
Well, absolutely.
Through the National Energy Dominance Council that runs out of the White House that President Trump has asked Secretary Chris Wright and I to lead, Secretary of Energy, we're working hard to make sure that we can do this, have this behind-the-meter capability, BYOP, bring your own power, because we need power.
This is about energy addition.
There is no energy transition.
President Trump understands that we've got to have energy abundance.
We've got to be able to sell energy to our friends and allies.
including those that have been dependent on our adversaries.
I mean, if you're getting energy from Iran or Russia and they're funding terrorism or wars, I mean, we can stop wars and stop terrorism by having energy abundance from the U.S., but enough abundance that we can keep prices for energy here at home low, even with the demand increase, so that we can win the AI arms race against China, which part of that race is who can generate the most electricity, because this is the first time in history
You can take a kilowatt of electricity and turn it into intelligence.
President Trump understands that.
His policy is going to work for both winning the arms race and for keeping electricity affordable for Americans.
Absolutely, because if it's off the grid, it's not putting any burden on the grid itself, and it's not putting any pressure on rate payers.
Matter of fact, in North Dakota, when I was still governor there just 15 months ago, we were completing a $1.2 billion data center.
And the electricity rates were going to go down for all the people there because you're spreading the cost across a big industrial buyer in a rural area.
So there are ways where you can add capability, add a big power user like that.