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Wright Explains AI's Electricity Demands on Fox & Friends

September 4, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:04:42

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox & Friends that artificial intelligence systems assemble massive amounts of information and find connections across it, a computation that takes enormous amounts of electricity, according to the Department of Energy’s upload of the September 4, 2025 appearance. Wright, identified in the segment as a member of the AI task force, called turning electricity into intelligence perhaps the highest use of electricity.

Wright said AI would lift everyone up, not only the analytically gifted students the first computer revolution favored, because the detailed computation and pattern association would be done by computers while people supply curiosity and questions. Asked about students using AI to avoid reading and writing, he said every powerful tool has good and bad uses, that tasks easily done by AI should be left to it, and that AI cannot love, express compassion or ponder art as humans do.

The hosts played a clip of First Lady Melania Trump announcing the Presidential AI Challenge for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Wright praised the initiative, saying he works daily on using AI to cure cancer, launch fusion energy and understand dark matter, and that the First Lady had recognized AI’s potential to lift up the education of children across the country.

Why it matters

The appearance is the Energy Secretary’s public explainer for why AI policy is energy policy — electricity as the input to intelligence — extended to workforce and classroom effects, as Wright presented them.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Chris Wright Joins Fox & Friends on Fox News – September 4, 2025”, 2025-09-04 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-09-04). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.