Happy National Small Business Week! Yesterday I wrote about how AI tools are helping power up America’s small businesses. But there’s a parallel story playing out in communities across the country. […]
Main Street’s Secret Ingredient: How AI Is Powering America’s Small Business Revolution
It’s National Small Business Week, and across America’s more than 36 million small businesses, a powerful, promising story is playing out. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming the secret ingredient to small business success. […]
New Report Highlights AI’s Promise – and America’s Shrinking Lead
Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving hundreds of billions of dollars in domestic investment and consumer surplus, but ongoing U.S. leadership is threatened by a surging China and a suffocating patchwork of state overregulation, including a surprising not in my back yard (NIMBY) movement […]
Authoritarian Propaganda Is Trying to Stall America’s AI Build Out
Something strange is happening in the American debate over data centers. The arguments showing up at state and local hearings in Maine, Ohio, and Oklahoma — that AI infrastructure is too expensive, too dirty, too dangerous — are the same arguments showing up on Chinese and Russian state television, almost word for word. […]
How California can counter China on AI — and engineer a big US win
Imagine two teams preparing for a world championship. One arrives with a full game plan. Coaches, players, and management are aligned around a single strategy. […]
American Edge Project Releases 2026 Toolkit to Secure U.S. AI Leadership
As the United States and China compete for global artificial intelligence (AI) leadership, AEP’s new toolkit offers actionable guidance for Congress and federal agencies to solidify America’s competitive edge in the global technology race and ensure the United States reaps the value and benefits of AI. Highlighting critical national security, workforce, healthcare and education needs, this new resource makes it clear that AI is the future and America must lead. […]
Calvert County’s Data Center Decision Is a Model for the Rest of America
All across America, rural counties face the same concerning math: large federal and state funding cuts, local tax bases that can’t keep up with the cost of schools, roads and public safety, and young families and jobs heading for the exits. […]
AI Isn’t the Future of Our National Security. It’s the Present.
America and China are racing for technological supremacy, and the margin is razor thin. Today, tech supremacy is increasingly synonymous with artificial intelligence (AI) leadership […]
Maine’s Moratorium Hinders Manufacturing
Maine’s proposed moratorium on new data centers sends exactly the wrong signal at the wrong time. Maine has lived through the loss of its industrial base, from paper mills to its manufacturing economy. […]
Banning Data Centers Hurts America & Our Local Communities
America has a long history of building the infrastructure that powered our future — from railroads to the interstate highway system to the internet. At each moment, there were real concerns and real debates. But we chose to build, and those decisions paid off in economic growth, national security, and global leadership. […]