April 9, 2025—Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang testifies at a US House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on "Converting Energy into Intelligence: The Future of AI Technology, Human Discovery, and American Global Competitiveness." If you want to bring on AI power quickly in our country, power for AI in our country, not only is it increasing costs across the board for the AI and the data centers itself, but for the power that goes into the data centers, but it's also injecting an immense amount of uncertainty. We had a hearing in the Energy Subcommittee in 2023 about AI and energy, and many people hadn't even been thinking about the tremendous use of energy by AI up until that time.