Doug Burgum

It may be certain countries as opposed to all of the EU countries.

Secretary Chris Wright and I today met with 21 energy ministers from Central and Eastern Europe.

Again, the race is on.

People that have sensible energy policies that focus on affordable, reliable, and secure energy are going to see a boom in investment going forward.

Because it's not just the data center, it's what follows that.

Advanced manufacturing, the physical AI, because AI will be the greatest productivity increase that humanity has ever seen.

It really is an extension of human capability, whether it's curing cancer, providing a tutor for every school kid in the world, or solving the most complex problems we've ever faced.

This is something that we need, and America and the free world needs to make sure that we're competitive in this AI arms race, and the way we do that is generate more power.

Energy addition, there is no such thing as energy transition if you're shutting down

7 by 24 secure base load and adding intermittent unreliable foreign sourced energy.

That's energy fantasy.

President Trump's focused on energy reality.

Well, absolutely.

And, of course, all the cabinet secretaries will tie it in with part of their jobs.

So I'm going to be heading out to western states where we have a large degree of federal land, a lot of intersection with those federal assets.

What we like to say, the Department of Interior has got the largest balance sheet in the world, 500 million acres of land, 700 million acres of subsurface rich with minerals, 3 billion acres of offshore from American Samoa to the U.S.

Virgin Islands.

Gulf of America, which represents a huge energy component mix for our country.

But yeah, we'll be spanning out and delivering the message.

And the message is one that's a forward-looking prosperity.