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Delivering sunlight to the dark side of Earth. Co-Founder and CEO of @reflectorbital @bennbuilds on deploying large reflectors in space for search and rescue, nighttime solar power, and other critical needs.

Republicans Are Being Shockingly Smart on Data Centers America needs the computing power. Families should not have to pay for it on their light bill. That is the whole fight, and for once a lot of Republicans are treating both halves as real. Data centers are how the United States stays ahead of China on AI. The jobs and tax base can be huge. Trump is not wrong that a country that refuses to build will get left behind. Tech companies that want the sites also are not entitled to drop a warehouse the size of a town onto a farm, suck the grid dry, drain the water, and hand the upgrade costs to everyone else. Voters figured that out before the consultants did. Polls show most Americans do not want one three miles from their house. Power prices are the reason. Local control is the other. This is not a mysterious culture-war item. It is a kitchen-table item. The smart Republican position writes itself. Build them where communities vote yes. Make the operators pay for their own power, water, and grid upgrades. Do not plant them on a family farm or a landmark just because a county board got a glossy presentation. Pause the stampede long enough to audit the load on the grid. That is what is happening. Greg Abbott paused new Texas connections to protect the grid and water. Ken Paxton backed him. Mike Rogers in Michigan called for a temporary pause. Tom Barrett ran an ad saying he stood up to his own party on tax breaks. Stacy Garrity in Pennsylvania and Tom Tiffany in Wisconsin moved the same direction. The Senate GOP campaign arm told candidates to put local votes and self-paid utilities first instead of pretending the brand is popular. Trump still wants the centers. He also said last week that if a Republican is against one, that is okay with him. That is the rarest thing in politics: a president who wants the national industry and will let states protect their ratepayers. Democrats want a simpler slogan. Ban them, tax them, and call it affordability. That is how you lose the AI race and still get a higher bill if the remaining sites get built somewhere else on the same interconnect. The obvious deal is not complicated. America First includes beating China. It also includes not turning Michigan roads, Texas substations, and Pennsylvania water systems into a subsidy for Silicon Valley. If a company cannot carry its own power plant or its own upgrade costs, it does not get to socialize them onto a widow on a fixed income. Build the future. Do not bill the neighbors for it. For once, enough Republicans are saying both sentences in the same breath.

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On the House floor tonight, I read the names of several Epstein coconspirators who should be investigated and prosecuted. I also began collecting 218 signatures for the discharge petition to force a vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II.