Martin Heinrich: “I mean, this is the infrastructure of our time, and I very much appreciate what you said about reaching out to Tribal…”

It was not easy. It took longer than we would like, but everyone was committed to getting there.

We’re going to get to ‘yes’ faster. We’re also going to get to ‘no’ faster when a project is harmful.

And some of the secret sauce in this was just the fact that we had four people who were genuinely committed to a balanced package that both sides could support.

In the permitting bill, that we just released text on a little over a week ago, we mandate that [data centers] have to pay for both the electricity and for any grid upgrades. And we prohibit passing those costs along to average ratepayers…