Sec. 3. Definitions
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In this Act: The term certification program means the Mined in America Certification Program established under section 4(a). The terms demand response and demand-responsive mean the capability of a facility, including a distributed energy system or controllable load, to adjust electricity consumption in response to price signals, grid reliability needs, or market incentives to enhance grid efficiency and resilience. The term foreign adversary has the meaning given the term covered nation in section 4872(f) of title 10, United States Code.
The term friendly nation means a foreign country that— is not a foreign adversary; and the Secretary of State designates as an ally or partner of the United States for purposes of this Act. The term high-density compute means a computational operation or facility characterized by high power density and intensive processing workloads, including those used for artificial intelligence training, inference, blockchain validation, advanced data processing, and other energy intensive compute tasks.
The term mining facility means a physical site that houses and operates specialized computer hardware for the purpose of performing proof-of-work mining, including associated power, cooling, and network infrastructure. The term mining pool means a group of participants in a proof-of-work mining network that— combine their computational resources over a network to increase the probability of validating a block; and share any resulting rewards in proportion to the contributed hash power of each participant.
The term proof-of-work mining means the operation of specialized hardware or computing systems to validate transactions and secure decentralized blockchain networks by solving cryptographic puzzles, resulting in the issuance of new units of a digital asset as a reward. The term Secretary means the Secretary of Commerce.