Spread data centers across all 50 states. The poorest counties get built first. Jobs and grid investment go where America needs them most.
Data centers pay for the grid they demand. Your electricity bill goes down. Virginia ratepayers stop subsidizing Amazon's server farms.
The American people take a 5% stake in every data center built under the national plan. The profits flow to the people, not just the shareholders.
A 2% fee on data center revenue funds free community college for every American, for life. No age limit. No means test. You qualify.
Pay 10% of income for 10 years. Whatever remains is forgiven. 45 million Americans freed simultaneously — financed by a one-time levy on the 50 largest data center operators.
A 0.1% fee on data center revenue funds secure mobile voting for every American. Open-source. Auditable. The same companies that built the internet finally make democracy accessible through it.
Virginia has 665 active data centers consuming 24 terawatt-hours of electricity per year — more than any other state in the country. More than Texas. More than California. More than Illinois and Arizona combined. One in every four kilowatt-hours of electricity generated in Virginia goes to a data center. Not to a home. Not to a school. Not to a hospital. To a server rack.
The data centers did not pay for the grid that powers them. Dominion Energy ratepayers did. The data centers did not pay for the fiber that connects them. Virginia taxpayers did. Virginia gave them $1.6 billion in tax breaks in FY2025 alone — the single largest corporate subsidy in the state's history. And then the electricity bills went up.
In the PJM capacity auction for 2025-2026, data center demand caused 63% of the total price increase — adding $9.3 billion in grid costs that every ratepayer in the mid-Atlantic region must absorb. The Harvard Kennedy School documented how utilities shift data center infrastructure costs onto residential customers through rate structures that most people never read and no one explains.
This is not a Virginia problem. It is an American problem that Virginia is being forced to solve alone. Fifteen states account for 80% of all data center electricity consumption in the United States. The remaining 35 states — home to the majority of America's working families, its rural communities, its historically underserved counties — host almost none of the infrastructure that powers the modern economy and receive almost none of the economic benefit.
$1.84 trillion. That is the total outstanding student loan debt carried by 45 million Americans. The same corporations that built their empires on American infrastructure and American research universities now lobby against student debt relief while their data centers receive billions in state tax exemptions. The debt is not a personal failure. It is a policy choice. And it can be reversed by a different policy choice.
Each provision is designed to stand alone and work together. The siting plan directs investment. The grid mandate lowers bills. The equity program builds public wealth. The education fund opens doors. The debt liberation frees 45 million Americans. The Digital Democracy Act returns power to the people who built it all. Together, they are one machine.
The data centers built their empires on public infrastructure. The Grid Equity Mandate ends the subsidy. The Data Center Infrastructure Fee recaptures a fraction of the value extracted. The Public Equity Program ensures that future extraction comes with a public return. None of this is radical. It is accounting.
A hyperscale data center is not a spreadsheet. It is a physical facility requiring hundreds of megawatts of dedicated power, miles of fiber interconnect, proximity to major internet exchange points, and years of permitting and construction. The building is here. The bill is here. The data centers cannot move to avoid a federal fee because the fee is federal — it applies to every facility on American soil regardless of state.
The National Siting Plan directs investment to the poorest counties in the country — places that have been told for thirty years that the new economy is not for them. The fiber goes in. The grid gets upgraded. The training programs open. The jobs follow. Not fifty jobs. Thousands of construction jobs per facility, followed by permanent technical employment, followed by the tax base that funds schools and roads and everything else a community needs to survive.
The Data Center Infrastructure Fee, the Public Equity Program, and the Student Debt Liberation levy are not government spending. They are the return on investments the American people already made. The land is ours. The grid is ours. The research universities that trained these engineers are ours. The bill has been outstanding for thirty years. This is the collection.
The data centers bear the burden they created. The poorest places get built first. Everyone's electricity bill goes down. Community college is free. Student debt is gone. The American people own a piece of the infrastructure that runs their lives.