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. […]
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Energy supply is the key to the AI race with China
Energy abundance could be the deciding factor in whether America or China wins the race for global artificial intelligence leadership. Right now, China is surging in that race — and they’re winning it on the power grid, not just in the lab. […]
Misguided Regulations Could Hand China Control of Our Internet
To prevent fragmented AI regulation and losing global tech leadership to China, Congress should codify the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan into a national framework. Top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the country’s 15th Five-Year Plan, which features artificial intelligence (AI) as a central strategy to strengthen China’s economy and military. […]
America’s AI future requires massive infrastructure investment
If the United States is serious about leading the world in artificial intelligence, it must confront a difficult truth: AI is not just about algorithms, venture funding, cloud platforms, or research labs. It is about energy and power grids, natural resources and supply chains, and human capital. […]
Don’t Let Permitting Red Tape Cost America the AI Race
China is building the power grid of the future. Meanwhile, America lags, slowed by regulations and permitting delays. Without a modern power grid, the U.S. risks falling behind China in a race that will define the next century of technological and economic growth.
Over the past decade, Beijing has aggressively expanded its energy capacity at a pace Washington has struggled to match. Over the last few years, China has added more than 11 times the generating capacity of the U.S. It has outpaced the U.S. in generating electricity for more than 14 consecutive years and is on track to add 60 percent additional capacity by 2040. […]
Power Outage: How the Energy Gap is Putting America’s AI Leadership at Risk
If energy generation were a sport, China would be the world champion, and America would be a struggling distant second. The scoreboard is sobering: […]
America Could Lose the AI Race Unless Congress Acts Now
To win the AI race against China, Congress must mobilize all forms of power, modernize the grid, onshore critical supply chains, and address America’s STEM talent gap.
America stands at a crossroads in the most consequential technology race of our lifetime. The outcome of the US–China competition for artificial intelligence (AI) will determine which country—and which set of values—leads the global economy and secures geopolitical preeminence. […]
Don’t Undercut America’s Military Power by Undermining Its AI
In the U.S. military and intelligence communities, we can’t cut corners. We must equip our highly trained people with the most advanced weapons and the most powerful technology available—because lives, missions, and the defense of freedom depend on it. So why would we shortchange our troops and analysts by undermining artificial intelligence (AI), the very technology that’s quickly becoming one of the most decisive capabilities in the 21st Century? […]
Trump’s AI Action Plan is a Step in the Right Direction
On July 23rd, President Trump released his administration’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan, a wide-ranging, whole-of-government approach to winning the AI race. As a lifelong Democrat and public servant, there are very few issue areas on which I agree with President Trump. But his plan for American AI leadership is a strong step in pursuing a goal that must transcend the wide partisan divide: ensuring the United States – and not our foreign adversaries – is who shapes the digital future. […]
The next 24 months in AI could shape the next 100 years
The next 24 months could shape the next 100 years. That’s how fast artificial intelligence is moving, according to the world’s top technologists. And right now, the U.S. and China are locked in a neck-and-neck race to develop the next frontier: AI systems that don’t just follow commands, but reason, plan, and improve themselves. […]