Secretary of State Marco Rubio hinted Tuesday that the future of U.S. climate engagement will shift to energy production, in part to deal with the growth of artificial intelligence, a priority for the Trump administration.
“AI development alone is going to put a strain on the amount of energy it is going to take to produce AI and AI-driven innovations,” he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a budget hearing.
Those rising energy demands are going to allow countries with the ability to provide energy an “enormous opportunity” to be leaders, Rubio said. But it’s going to put a strain on everyone else.
“So we need to be at the table to have conversations about not just what our role in energy is, but how we help invest or partner with countries that have a supply of energy,” he said.
