Some Democrats, including my friend Rep. Ro Khanna, are asking why we aren’t putting the new AI data centers in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Actually we are doing that. The key to building new data centers is easier permitting and more power generation, both of which were effectively impossible under the Biden administration. The Trump administration is alleviating the bottlenecks. As the President says, we are going to “Drill, Baby, Drill” — and we are also going to Build, Baby, Build. I hope Democrats will cooperate with us on this agenda; let’s do it together for the betterment of the USA. With respect to UAE, it’s important to understand that the deal has a matching investment provision, so UAE will fund the build-out of AI infrastructure in the U.S. at least as large and powerful as that in UAE. And in UAE, the vast majority of the compute will be owned & operated by American cloud companies, to serve the region as well as the Global South. These are America First deals that drive investment into the U.S., improve our trade balance, and lock in American technology as the global standard. The alternative is for the U.S. to reject the resource-rich Gulf States and drive them into the arms of China, which is eager to sell them a Huawei+DeepSeek tech stack. And China won’t gainsay the opportunity by asking local partners why they aren’t building their data centers in Beijing or Shanghai instead. China will just fill out the purchase orders and ship the chips, making Chinese technology the standard. We shouldn’t let this happen. We still have a limited window to ensure American technology dominance in global AI infrastructure. Let’s seize it.