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Hancock: Chris Wright is the voice of energy sanity America needs

Commentary, Approved, Rocky Mountain Voice, Top Stories / April 8, 2025 / Energy, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, LNG Exports, Trump Administration

Confidence in experience is never misplaced, least of all in the arena of energy policy. Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy under President Trump, spoke frankly at a recent luncheon hosted by Colorado’s Ladies 4 Liberty. Secretary Wright exemplifies precisely why deep industry expertise is indispensable in government service.

An entrepreneur by background, Wright’s appointment is more than symbolic—it signals a tangible shift towards practicality and rational policy grounded in real-world energy economics.

At its core, Wright’s philosophy centers on a straightforward, yet powerful assertion: energy availability is fundamental to human progress.

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Trump greenlights AI data center at Colorado’s NREL to ‘win the AI race’

The Trump administration is looking to locate a private data center and power plant on land owned by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as part of a broader plan to site such facilities at 16 national laboratories.

“Private data center companies, that’s where the capital is, that’s where the investment is and on federal land, we make a commercial arrangement with them,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said at a press conference Thursday at NREL.