Power for AI Leadership: America’s Manhattan Project for Ai Energy

America’s next decade will be decided by power—reliable, affordable, buildable power. This flagship plan delivers it: retire coal, cap and shrink gas energy, and anchor the grid with standardized nuclear, while HVDC spines move cheap solar and wind to the load pockets that matter. We pair dispatchable solar+storage with AI-optimized operations so evenings stay reliable as data-center and factory demand surges. A 70/30 federal–state compact unlocks projects at Manhattan tempo: milestone-based funding, programmatic permitting, methane kill-switches, habitat banking, and community benefit agreements. The price tag—about $725B federal over 20 years (≈0.13% of GDP/yr)—is small compared to the upside in national security, jobs, and competitiveness. This is a bridge with an exit: gas for resilience now, nuclear supplants it starting 2030. Quarterly scoreboards track what count along the way.