In the digital world, Artificial Intelligence moves at the speed of light. In the physical world, the infrastructure required to power it moves at the speed of a 1970s filing cabinet.
The winner of the AI race will not be the nation with the cleverest algorithms, but the one that can build the most robust physical infrastructure—the data centers and energy grids that form the foundation of intelligence. But identifying the need for this physical infrastructure backbone is only half the battle. The other half is actually building it. Currently, the United States is attempting to win a 21st-century technological sprint while wearing the lead weights of a legacy regulatory system that treats every new power line as a decade-long litigation project.
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