On October 24, 2024, Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor to President Joe Biden, delivered a critical address at the National Defense University, focusing on the United States’ approach to AI and national security. His remarks underscored the importance of safeguarding AI infrastructure, fortifying the nation’s semiconductor production, and ensuring sustainable energy support—all essential to maintaining the U.S. lead in artificial intelligence.
“Next is hardware and power. Developing advanced AI systems requires large volumes of advanced chips, and keeping those AI systems humming requires large amounts of power.
On chips, we’ve taken really significant steps forward. We passed the CHIPS and Science Act, making a generational investment in our semiconductor manufacturing, including the leading-edge logic chips and the high-bandwidth memory chips needed for AI.
We’ve also taken decisive action to limit strategic competitors’ access to the most advanced chips necessary to train and use frontier AI systems with national security implications, as well as the tools needed to make those chips.
The National Security Memorandum builds on this progress by directing all of our national security agencies to make sure that those vital chip supply chains are secure and free from foreign interference.
On power, the memorandum recognizes the importance of designing, permitting, and constructing clean energy generation facilities that can serve AI data centers so that the companies building world-leading AI infrastructure build as much as possible here in the United States in a way that is consistent with our climate goals.”.
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