Energy bigwigs met with Trump administration officials in Washington on Thursday as part of a new initiative aimed at boosting U.S. energy supplies to meet the demand spurred by artificial intelligence.
That effort, launched earlier this year and dubbed the American Energy + AI Initiative, is a partnership led by the Hamm Institute for American Energy based out of Oklahoma State University and the Washington lobbying firm CGCN Group.
The partnership met Thursday at GE Vernova’s Washington offices with Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Deputy Secretary Katharine MacGregor and industry representatives.
The coalition is looking to inform the Trump administration on one of its top policy priorities. “Winning the AI race” is a top objective for the White House, which released an AI “action plan” in July. That document calls for building and maintaining “vast AI infrastructure and the energy to power it,” while rejecting “radical climate dogma and bureaucratic red tape.”
