While Bay Area coders and Ivy League grads dominate the headlines about artificial intelligence (AI), it is miners and construction workers who will create and maintain the data centers and the energy grid that unlock American innovation. […]
AI Is Accelerating Early Detections of Cancers and New Cures
Artificial intelligence (AI) is helping medical researchers discover new treatments and enabling doctors to catch diseases sooner, including cancers that used to be found too late to treat. This isn’t just about medical research timelines – this is about more time with our loved ones. […]
AEP Releases New Ads on Healthcare and AI
The American Edge Project, a coalition of nearly two dozen domestic organizations, today launched new ads, ‘Healthcare,’ and ‘Progress,’ highlighting how artificial intelligence (AI) is strengthening American medical care. […]
The Data Center Dividend: How America’s AI Infrastructure Is Paying Off for Working Families
Critics of data centers frequently wave off the economic impact of these facilities, calling it hype and asserting that jobs and benefits to working families never materialize. But tell that to the teacher in rural Richland Parish, Louisiana, who just received a $50,000 bonus check due to soaring local sales tax revenue since construction began on its data center. […]
America’s AI Edge Will Be Built by Hand
In the movies, “if you build it, they will come.” In the real economy, somebody has to do the building first, and right now America is running short of the people who can. […]
Data Infrastructure is Essential
David A. Deptula’s June 1 op-ed, “An overlooked key to national security is at risk,” was right: Data infrastructure is now as essential to American military power as runways and aircraft carriers. […]
Coshocton County Shows Why Ohio Should Not Ban Data Centers
Coshocton County, Ohio, has spent the past decade plus watching its industrial foundation collapse, one anchor at a time. […]
From Data Centers to Disease Breakthroughs: AI Is Speeding Up Science
Why is building America’s artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure so critically important and urgent? Because America’s AI companies, powered by local data centers, are helping compress decades of health and biology research into months and years. […]
ICYMI: AEP Values Advisors React to Trump-Xi Summit & Call for Bipartisan Urgency on AI
Former Representatives Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) and Greg Walden (R-OR) published a new op-ed in The National Interest arguing that last week’s Trump-Xi summit should put artificial intelligence (AI) at the center of the U.S.-China debate. […]
Trump-Xi Summit Underscores Need for Bipartisan Urgency on AI
The United States must adopt a unified national strategy to outcompete China in AI and ensure democratic values shape the technologies of the future. […]