Sheldon Whitehouse: “Put me down as a cosponsor on your legislation to restrict these gag orders, and we will work together on that.”

If we can pass this bill, we will flood the grid with clean, affordable energy and make data centers start paying their fair share.

This is a hugely important milestone but there are two big pieces of work in front of us.

“must pay for any network upgrades needed to serve their big demand, so ratepayers don’t bear the cost burden of added infrastructure.”

We need more clarity on that, and when we have more clarity on that they’ll be back-and-forth to try to resolve those issues.