Washington, April 25 (IANS) A sharp partisan divide emerged in the US Congress over how to secure critical mineral supply chains, with lawmakers and industry witnesses warning that China’s dominance poses risks to national security while disagreeing on whether environmental laws are part of the problem.At a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing, Chairman Gary Palmer said China “has aggressively sought to dominate the global market for critical minerals with dire consequences for our…
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Washington, March 12 (IANS) The United States must rapidly expand electricity generation and modernise its power grid to sustain the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, warning that decades of under-investment in energy infrastructure could constrain the country’s technological ambitions. Speaking at a panel on powering America’s AI future at a BlackRock summit, Wright said the scale of energy required to support data centres and advanced computin…