US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday creating a “National Energy Dominance Council” that will be tasked with helping meet the vast electric power needs to win the AI race with China.
“We’re going to be energy dominant like nobody else, and this doesn’t even discuss all of the electricity that we’re going to be producing for all of the AI plants,” Trump told reporters as he signed the order.
“They need at least double the electricity we have right now,” he added.
Trump’s Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, who also attended the signing, said, “The US is in an AI arms race with China. The only way we win is with more electricity.”
According to the White House, the council will coordinate energy policy across federal agencies and streamline permitting, production and distribution of various energy resources.
