OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and AWS are among the private industry collaborators that have committed to advancing the Trump administration’s AI goals.

“We just have to act like our life depends on it,” Under Secretary for Science Darío Gil said during a House hearing Wednesday.

The $28 million-plus investment will go toward projects that leverage machine learning, data sharing, AI infrastructure and more.

The market research announcement will be used to inform the Trump administration’s "Genesis Mission” announced late last month, the agency said.

An announced restructure of the Department of Energy also includes an office for technology roadmaps.

The Genesis Mission will create a unified AI resource that pulls together federal datasets from DOE supercomputers to “solve the most challenging problems of this century.”

The lawmakers pushed the commission in a letter to “take immediate action” to ensure Americans aren’t footing the bill for the nationwide buildout of data centers.

The agency seeks information on how the consortium can fuel “self-improving” models that pull in scientific data from national laboratories and provide access to other partners.

A letter to OSTP’s Michael Kratsios and Commerce’s Howard Lutnick demands answers over surging electricity prices connected to the buildout of AI data centers.

The move to install Zimmer comes after a high turnover rate in the department’s top IT post under the Trump administration.