May 8, 2026 - Energy Secretary Chris Wright tells attendees of the Special Competitive Studies Project's AI Expo that the U.S. needs to fix its "bureaucratic and complex" electrical grid so it can grow fast. "If we don’t do that, we're going to slow down AI," Wright says. He contrasts America's electricity production, which he says has been nearly stagnant for the past 20 years, with the rapid growth of oil and natural gas production during that period.