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In this Act: (1) Certification program The term certification program means the Mined in America Certification Program established under section 4(a). (2) Demand response; demand-responsive 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. (3) Foreign adversary The term foreign adversary has the meaning given the term covered nation in section 4872(f) of title 10, United States Code. (4) Friendly nation The term friendly nation means a foreign country that— (A) is not a foreign adversary; and (B) the Secretary of State designates as an ally or partner of the United States for purposes of this Act. (5) High-density compute 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. (6) Mining facility 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. (7) Mining pool The term mining pool means a group of participants in a proof-of-work mining network that— (A) combine their computational resources over a network to increase the probability of validating a block; and (B) share any resulting rewards in proportion to the contributed hash power of each participant. (8) Proof-of-work mining 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. (9) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of Commerce.