Tax Virginia's massive data centers to fund free community college for life, debt-free degrees, and fully funded HBCUs.
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of liberty."
A free and fair society cannot exist if only a small elite are afforded the opportunity of higher education, while everyone else is burdened by rising tuition costs and student loans. I understand student loans.
My vision is simple and revolutionary: AI will pay for free education in America.
We will designate the largest data centers and AI compute facilities as critical infrastructure, setting up a national framework to regulate them. We will also tax their electricity use and revenue, to go into a National College Trust Fund, the "People's Trust Fund," that will directly benefit the people of this country.
If you are willing to learn, there should always be a classroom for you to enter without fear of the tuition bill.
Whether you are 18 or 69, you can walk into a community college and enroll in class without tuition. Education is what uplifts a society, and everyone has the lifelong right to participate.
Two years at community college and two years at any public university, with tuition guaranteed by the data center tithe for those who complete their programs.
The institutions that have carried Black excellence for generations will be fully funded, uplifting groups that historically have not been given the same opportunities as others.
The trust fund will seed the founding of a tuition-free public university to be the first truly Hispanic serving institution, Cesar Chavez University. This will give Hispanics a true path to power and an opportunity to learn in peace for four years.
The funding is simple:
Tax the electricity consumption of Virginia's massive AI and data center facilities.
Fee on advanced AI chips and specialized accelerators sold to these facilities.
Revenue share from the largest AI and cloud companies operating in Virginia.
Together, these revenue streams will raise fifty to one-hundred billion dollars a year, building a trust fund of up to a trillion dollars over the next decade as AI scales.
We can prove all this too—with the math we'll release later.
In doing this, we ensure fair capitalism. We allow for companies to compete, the American way, while ensuring that we the people are not left behind.
Every dollar will be locked into education for the people, paid for by corporations and benefitting working families.
AI will become an endowment for a free and educated republic, where every citizen has the right to learn as far and as long as their ambition will take them.