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A Year On, Sacks Defends Trump's AI Strategy and Warns Against Deviation

June 28, 2026 at 10:41 EDT

Policy & Regulation
Infra & Chips

David Sacks, the former White House AI and Crypto Czar, has reaffirmed his defense of "America's AI Action Plan" unveiled in July 2025, arguing the United States must stay the course on a strategy centered on innovation, infrastructure, energy and exports. Sacks said President Trump was "exactly right" when he declared a year ago that America was in a global AI race and that winning it required being pro-innovation, pro-infrastructure, pro-energy and pro-export, adding that "we deviate from that strategy at our peril."

July 23, 2025 · The White House

"Winning the Race": America's AI Action Plan Doubles Down on Innovation

AI czar David Sacks says the U.S. risks falling behind if it deviates from a strategy built on four pillars — pro-innovation, pro-infrastructure, pro-energy, and pro-export. The 28-page plan carries 90+ recommendations and three same-day executive orders.

90+

Policy recommendations across the plan

Executive orders signed the same day

Pages in the strategy document

Private investment vs. permitting floor

The plan ties faster data-center permitting to large private capital — and aims to unlock buildouts on a vastly larger scale.

$500M

Permitting threshold (private capital)

$500B

"Stargate Project" AI infrastructure target

A 1,000× leap in scale — from the permitting floor to the headline buildout ambition.

Four pillars of the strategy

Innovation

Private-sector-led, deregulation, open-source, removing AI bias

Infrastructure

Faster data-center permitting, chips and energy buildout

Energy

AI firms build their own power plants to spare consumer bills

Exports / Diplomacy

Export full-stack AI to allies, stronger export controls

Supporters say

Removing regulation accelerates innovation while advancing energy self-sufficiency and expanding exports — keeping the U.S. ahead in its rivalry with China.

Critics warn

Excessive deregulation may undermine safety; surging data-center power demand could burden consumers — alongside conflict-of-interest and state-regulation friction.

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