President Trump and his administration have regularly maintained that America winning the AI race is a “national security imperative” and that it must do “whatever it takes” to beat Red China in the competition for AI dominance.
“We are beating China by a lot [in AI] because I allowed these plants to be built,” Trump recently said of his efforts to help Big Tech firms power their resource-sucking data centers with their own plants. “These companies build their own electric units now, they don’t use the grid at all. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be able to compete … It’s important that we win” (emphasis added).
