{"id":21935,"date":"2026-04-27T20:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jeffries-says-ai-data-centers-will-be-dem-priority\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T20:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:32:05","slug":"jeffries-says-ai-data-centers-will-be-dem-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jeffries-says-ai-data-centers-will-be-dem-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries says AI data centers will be Dem priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries signaled Monday that shielding consumers from rising electricity costs associated with the data center boom would be a priority on Democrats\u2019 artificial intelligence agenda should they win back a majority.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Democrat said at a press conference that Democrats want to ensure that \u201cour homegrown companies can continue to lead the world in this transformative technology\u201d but that \u201cwe&#8217;ve got to make sure we protect the American consumer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to protect the American homeowner,\u201d Jeffries said when asked by Blue Light News about how he is advising Democrats to talk about AI and what his related legislative priorities would be. \u201cWe have to protect the American rate payer from some of the downsides of the explosion of what has been taking place across the country, particularly in connection with data centers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries\u2019 comment comes as House Democratic leadership\u2019s AI priorities are beginning to crystallize. Earlier Monday, Republican Rep. Jay Obernolte and Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu \u2014 both members of leadership from California \u2014 introduced legislation to boost federal research on AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve maintained from the very beginning as House Democrats that we want to support innovation excellence, while at the same time making sure there are guardrails to protect the American people,\u201d Jeffries said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries signaled Monday that shielding consumers from rising electricity costs associated with the data center boom would be a priority on Democrats\u2019 artificial intelligence agenda should they win back a majority. The New York Democrat said at a press conference that Democrats want to ensure that \u201cour homegrown companies can continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}