(The Center Square) – Texas institutions developing nuclear energy and winning the Artificial Intelligence (AI) race are imperative to national security, Gov. Greg Abbott and former Gov. Rick Perry argued at an event in Austin hosted by the Texas Nuclear Alliance.

“The AI race is a race that we absolutely have to win,” Perry said. “We have to win this AI driven or data center race because the Chinese are making great extraordinary moves and we are behind.”

Perry co-founded Fermi America, which is partnering with Texas Tech to build the “first-of-its-kind behind-the-meter HyperGrid™ campus” that will “integrate the largest nuclear power complex in America, the nation's biggest combined-cycle natural gas project, utility grid power, solar power, and battery energy storage to deliver next-g

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