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Chris Wright: “We will have it in six months at Oak Ridge National Lab…”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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The AI Race: Why the Future of Power Is at Stake with U.S. Energy Secretary, Chris Wright

Published | Video Starts at 30:07

500 responses, two of them. I announced one yesterday with AMD and HPE. Hewlett Packard Enterprises. Yes. I put out a thing like, we need artificial intelligence. We need compute power. We will have it in six months at Oak Ridge National Lab. Three times the computing power of the top computer we have at Oak Ridge in six months. Wow. That's not a procurement process. That's not a normal thing. That's saying, let's do a partnership. Which means they said, we'll go up. (30:07–30:17)

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Asserts that Oak Ridge National Lab will have a computer with three times the current top computing power in six months.

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