Robert Wolf and Stephen Moore, former economic advisers to the Obama and Trump administrations respectively, presented a bipartisan framework to regulate the construction of AI-powered data centers. Their proposal establishes federal guidelines in five areas: ratepayer protection, energy security and grid reliability, environmental stewardship, transparency and community engagement, and local flexibility. It notably requires developers to fund the additional infrastructure needed for their projects while leaving communities with final authority over facility siting. The framework comes after more than 300 state-level data center bills were introduced in 2026 and the launch of the bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, which would also shift grid expansion costs to large consumers.
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