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Secretary Wright on Bartiromo: $1 Billion AMD–Oak Ridge Supercomputers and the Pipeline Buildout

October 28, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:11:11

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright joined Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo on October 28, 2025, following the announcement of a $1 billion partnership between the Department of Energy and AMD to build two supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Wright clarified the financing: the direct capital is coming from AMD, while the department provides the data center and will run and operate the machines, sharing part of the financial burden. He called it a perfect example of a public-private partnership that avoids a two-year procurement process, saying AI is moving fast and the government needs to move fast, as he stated it. The machines are expected to deliver three times the AI performance of systems currently on site within a few months, according to the announcement.

Bartriromo raised the Permian Basin, where executives told her natural gas produced alongside oil is being sold at a loss for lack of pipelines. Wright agreed infrastructure is the question: natural gas is 25 percent of total global energy and over 40 percent of American electricity, he said, and California and New England have extremely high energy prices because of political choices that blocked basic infrastructure. He predicted many pipelines will be built during this administration, carrying Permian gas to data centers and manufacturing in southern New Mexico and, in a few years, to giant semiconductor and data center developments in Arizona, as he stated it.

Why it matters

The appearance links the administration’s AI buildout directly to its energy buildout: federal supercomputing capacity at Oak Ridge on one side, and the pipelines needed to fuel data-center growth on the other.

Scoreboard watch

The Oak Ridge commitment — two AMD supercomputers delivering three times current AI capacity within a few months under a $1 billion partnership — is a dated, checkable deliverable.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo - October 28, 2025”, 2025-10-28 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-10-28). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.