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Troy Downing: “We don't have the capacity to generate what we need to be…”

Featuring: Troy Downing, Republican | U.S. House Montana, 2nd Congressional District

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Powering America's Future: Rep. Troy Downing on Montana Energy, AI Demand, and Military Service

Published | Video Starts at 07:11

And this is bigger, this is not just a threat to American industry, but a threat to American security is going to be the AI race. And we are not, We don't have the capacity to generate what we need to be competitive right now [in the AI race]. And so we need to start turning those switches on just on the generation part as well as the transmission part because we're going to be left in the dust by our adversaries if we don't look at that. (07:11–07:16)

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Asserts that the U.S. lacks sufficient energy capacity to compete in the AI race.

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