U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and NVIDIA VP Ian Buck discussed the DOE's Genesis Mission at the SCSP AI+ Expo, arguing that American AI leadership depends on energy leadership. NVIDIA is partnering with the DOE to build two AI supercomputers at Argonne National Laboratory: Equinox (10,000 Grace Blackwell GPUs) and Solstice (100,000 Vera Rubin GPUs delivering 5,000 exaflops). Wright outlined plans to expand natural gas, nuclear (including SMRs going critical by July 4), and coal energy production to power AI growth. Buck highlighted NVIDIA's 25x performance-per-watt improvement from Hopper to Blackwell. Both argued AI will accelerate scientific discovery in fusion, materials science, and grid interconnection studies, and that building more data centers will lower electricity costs rather than raise them.
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