UPDATE 1 — Trump is talking with Senate's Thune about bill to cut data — center electricity costs

(Adds quote from Trump, details on legislation, passage in House from paragraphs 2-7) By Jacob Bogage and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) — President Donald Trump said on Friday he is engaging with Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune about bringing to the floor a bill aimed at protecting households from electricity cost increases tied to the expansion of data centers. "Well, I'm talking to him about it. We'll see what happens," Trump told reporters on Friday. Lawmakers from both parties have faced growing constituent concerns over rising electricity costs associated with the industry's surging power demand. Earlier this week, the Republican-majority House of Representatives voted 417 to 3 in favor of the Ratepayer Protection Act, which would require state utility regulators to consider whether large electricity users, including data centers, should bear the incremental costs of power infrastructure built to serve them. An attempt by Senate Republicans to get the bill quickly passed failed on Thursday. Senator Martin Heinrich, the top Democrat on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, blocked the proposal, after its sponsor, Republican Senator Jo