{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/icymi-op-ed-from-senator-lummis-in-csd-wyoming-baseload-energy-is-trumps-secret-weapon-in-ai-war-against-china/", "ICYMI: OP-ED from Senator Lummis in CSD: Wyoming Baseload Energy is Trump\u2019s Secret Weapon in AI War Against China", "2025-09-25", "2025", "2025-09", "Republican", "Senate", "WY", "Cynthia M. Lummis", "L000571", "www.lummis.senate.gov", "lummis", "https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "Cheyenne, WY \u2013 Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) this week published an op-ed in Cowboy State Daily discussing how fulfilling President Trump\u2019s bold AI initiative will require vast amounts of Wyoming baseload energy. That\u2019s good news for Wyoming and for our economy.\n\nRead the full op-ed here and below.\n\nCowboy State Daily: Wyoming Baseload Energy is Trump\u2019s Secret Weapon in AI War Against China\n\nSen. Cynthia Lummis\n\nSeptember 23, 2025\n\nPresident Trump\u2019s AI initiative officially launched in July with a bold and declarative message: America will lead the artificial intelligence revolution, or we will cede our future to the Chinese Communist Party. Those in Washington don\u2019t understand this fact, but this technological war won\u2019t be won or lost in Silicon Valley boardrooms or D.C. conference rooms, but in the coal mines and power generation sites of Wyoming. Simply put, Wyoming energy is the key to winning this war.\n\nThe AI revolution is about raw computational power at an unprecedented scale. Training a recent AI model consumed over 50 gigawatt-hours, enough electricity to power 5,000 homes for a year. Today\u2019s AI training clusters draw 100+ megawatts continuously, running 24/7, for months. That requires a lot of energy.\n\nDuring my travels across Wyoming, countless folks have approached me about AI and the data centers coming to our state. I tell them the truth: If we don\u2019t power America\u2019s AI with Wyoming energy, China will build their AI dominance on their coal instead. We can either build out our energy to power America\u2019s future and get paid for it, or watch China use their energy to beat us.\n\nWhile Democrats have spent decades forcing America to chase wind and solar fantasies, China has been building energy infrastructure using coal, natural gas, and nuclear power, the exact same reliable baseload energy sources that Wyoming has more of than anyone else. The Chinese are not sabotaging their own technological capabilities with green energy nonsense. We shouldn\u2019t either.\n\nThank God we have President Trump back in the White House. His administration has spent months knocking down the regulatory roadblocks that Obama and Biden used to strangle Wyoming\u2019s coal, oil, natural gas, and uranium industries. Wyoming sits on top of the baseload energy arsenal that President Trump knows we need to crush China\u2019s AI ambitions.\n\nThe numbers tell Wyoming\u2019s story. We produce more coal than any other state. Our natural gas reserves could fuel America\u2019s energy needs for decades. Our uranium deposits could power reliable nuclear plants around the clock. In fact, Wyoming produces 12 times more energy than we consume.\n\nJust last month, I visited the Kemmerer coal mine and sat down with the miners there. These are hardworking Americans who\u2019ve been told for years by Democrats that their jobs don\u2019t matter, that they should \u201clearn to code\u201d or find work in the solar panel industry. It was insulting then, and it\u2019s insulting now.\n\nBut when I talked with those miners about President Trump\u2019s policies and the energy needed, their faces lit up. For the first time in years, they\u2019re hearing from an administration that actually respects what they do.\n\nThe AI technological arms race isn\u2019t coming. It\u2019s here, and it\u2019s moving fast. America\u2019s victory depends entirely on the reliable, affordable, abundant power that Wyoming can provide at the scale this challenge demands.\n\nThe Chinese Communist Party is betting everything on a simple wager: that America\u2019s environmental extremists will successfully cripple our energy sector while China builds technological superiority on mountains of coal and rivers of oil. They\u2019re counting on us to choose left-wing climate ideology over national survival.\n\nI refuse to let that happen.\n\nIt\u2019s time to recognize that President Trump is absolutely right about energy dominance. We must unleash Wyoming energy to power America\u2019s victory in the most important competition of our lifetime.\n\nRead the full op-ed here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/icymi-op-ed-from-senator-lummis-in-csd-wyoming-baseload-energy-is-trumps-secret-weapon-in-ai-war-against-china/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7777139544487, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}