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(NewsNation) — The United States volition soon motorboat a planetary trading nine for critical minerals, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced Monday.
Speaking astatine the ADIPEC Exhibition and Conference, 1 of the world’s astir influential vigor summits successful Abu Dhabi, Burgum emphasized the value of vigor information arsenic the U.S. aims to pb the artificial quality arms race, noting that captious minerals are important to the accumulation of artificial intelligence.
Burgum told "Morning successful America" connected Monday the federation indispensable “get backmost successful the powerfulness procreation game” to enactment competitive. He said keeping energy affordable is essential, calling it a cardinal instauration for the emergence of precocious manufacturing and AI innovation.
"We besides request it to powerfulness each these quality factories truthful that we tin person the quality to powerfulness industries and powerfulness the productivity gains and each the fantastic things that tin travel from AI ... from curing crab to transforming acquisition to improving virtually each manufacture we person successful this country," helium said.
Burgum besides underscored the value of vigor successful U.S. diplomacy, saying vigor information and nationalist information are profoundly connected.
"Energy dominance is truly vigor abundance," Burgum said. "Having the quality to merchantability vigor to our friends and allies truthful that they don't person to bargain from our adversaries. Having abundant, plentiful, affordable, reliable vigor is cardinal to vigor security. It's cardinal to nationalist security. It's cardinal to satellite peace."
