Arizona State Representative Justin Wilmeth has defended the expansion of electricity capacity for Arizona's largest utility, APS, by predicting that the state's largest, the largest, will require more new electricity capacity in the next decade than what APS has built over its entire 140-year history. He argues that data centers provide jobs and other benefits for individuals close to them, and that they also bring other jobs. One bill passed in the House would allow utilities to build power plants adjacent to data centers without state environmental approval and without one public hearing. Another bill allows data centers to warm surrounding neighborhoods by several degrees, and another bill allows for the construction of power plants near data centers. Despite concerns about power consumption, local control, and heat, Wilmet argues that the economic benefits outweigh these concerns. He also highlighted a national security imperative for the development of AI technology in the United States and suggests that if we stifle it in Arizona, Russia or China will lead in the future, Russia will lead.