Energy for Compute
Powering Freedom’s Digital Future
“Strategic competition requires not only being energy dominant today—capable of powering ourselves and our allies—but also ensuring we lead in the energy systems of tomorrow.”
Kennedy Photo from China.
Why Energy for Compute Matters
- Artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and advanced manufacturing are redefining what it means to be a technological power — and all depend on one thing: abundant, reliable, affordable, and trusted energy.
- Compute is the new currency of power.
- Energy is its reserve standard.
- Authoritarian regimes weaponize energy dependencies to finance expansion and coerce others. Democracies must instead build energy ecosystems that are clean, resilient, and geopolitically aligned — ensuring that the data centers, fabs, and industries powering freedom never run on authoritarian fuel.
Strategic Priorities for Energy and Compute Sovereignty
- Power the Compute Race with Trusted Energy: AI and semiconductor dominance require staggering amounts of power. Democracies must integrate energy planning with digital infrastructure strategy — expanding nuclear, hydrogen, and renewable capacity through trusted supply chains.
- Secure Critical Energy Minerals and Manufacturing: Build redundancy and resilience into the extraction, processing, and recycling of copper, lithium, rare earths, and other inputs essential to both energy storage and chip production.
- Embed Energy Policy in Industrial Strategy: Link incentives for clean-tech manufacturing with digital infrastructure investment, ensuring that new fabs, grids, and compute hubs rise where energy is abundant and alliances are strong.
- Build Resilient, Allied Energy Networks: Invest in cross-border grids, LNG terminals, and critical mineral corridors across the Americas, Europe, and the Indo-Pacific to reduce authoritarian leverage and enable collective energy security.
- Lead the Energy Transition Through Innovation and Standards: Champion interoperable carbon markets, nuclear safety norms, and green-trade frameworks that uphold transparency and fair competition — ensuring clean energy does not become a new sphere of coercion.
Insights & Engagements
🏛️ Engaging Administration or Congress, 📰 Op-Ed / Article / Quoted ✍️ Policy Brief / Blog Posts 👥 Roundtable 🎤 Speaking / Moderating 🎥 TV/Video 🌐 Global
Geopolitical Energy Competition
Address malign influence from authoritarian exporters while building redundancy and resilience into global supply.
Global Energy Alliances
Strengthen alignment with allies through infrastructure investment, technology sharing, and harmonized transition pathways.
Energy Innovation
Accelerate R&D, deployment, and workforce development in renewables, storage, grid modernization, and hydrogen.
- 🎤 Bolstering Energy Security through Innovative Infrastructure Technologies - Moderated Wilson Center Roundtable - April 3, 2024
Critical Minerals Supply Chains
Carbon Accounting & Green Trade
Lead in establishing carbon pricing norms and sustainability standards that favor open, rules-based economies.
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