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Wright and Zeldin on Fox News: AI Supercomputer Partnerships and Energy Dominance

November 2, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:09:05

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Lara Trump on Fox News that the Department of Energy had announced two private-sector partnerships — with Advanced Micro Devices and with Nvidia — to build multiple AI supercomputers. He said AI will transform the world in massively positive ways, from faster cancer treatment to national security, and that the President has said the United States has to lead in AI.

Wright explained the model: instead of a normal procurement process, the companies build massive data centers on federal lands, using much of the computing power commercially while the government uses it to advance science, drug discovery, new materials, new energy systems, and modernizing and maintaining the nuclear stockpile ahead of China. On powering AI, he said electricity goes in and intelligence comes out, but the country must get out of the slow gear it has been in for growing the electric grid, which requires changing how the government operates.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the work carries national security and economic benefits from unleashing energy dominance and making America the AI capital of the world, and argued it also carries enormous environmental benefit because the United States taps its energy supplies better and safer than many other countries. He said permits will take less time under the administration’s approach.

Why it matters

The joint appearance links the administration’s AI leadership goal directly to its energy and permitting agenda: federal land and computing for industry, in exchange for government research capacity and grid expansion.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Chris Wright and Secretary Lee Zeldin Join Lara Trump on Fox News – November 1, 2025”, 2025-11-02 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-11-02). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.