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America's nuclear weapons, especially the atomic bomb, ended World War II. It then avoided a violent war with the Soviet Union and consolidated decades of global stability. The decisive superweapon of the next major conflict will be digital and run on supercomputers (specifically, special chips called “GPUs”) that can crack codes, paralyze an enemy's economy, and It has the power to destroy weapons from within. Just as America's military needs the world's best planes and ships, America's military needs cutting-edge supercomputers to stop future conflicts before they start. Our adversaries need to understand that if they attack our allies in the United States or Taiwan, they will be targeted with the world's most formidable cyberweapons, and they cannot prevent us from producing them. There is.
Strategic supercomputers save lives and end wars by powering future technologies at a scale and speed never before possible. This means military leaders can simulate combat and identify weaknesses and opportunities before it happens. Our frontline forces will enjoy an overwhelming information advantage thanks to systems that sift through data from thousands of satellites, drones, and sensors around the world. Pro-Trump, pro-American companies like Anduril and Palantir have already achieved multibillion-dollar valuations, building AI-powered systems and software ranging from autonomous fighter jets to kamikaze drone fleets.
Why would this type of supercomputer be such a powerful deterrent? A nation with this capability would be able to outthink, outwit, and survive its adversaries in proportion to the available computing power. . AI not only accelerates the development of new technologies, but also enables existing technologies to run faster and better. Strategic supercomputers can build and execute innovative AI cyberweapons while protecting America's leadership in both industry and combat.
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To be frank, I would like to note that I am a serial founder of Hydra Host, American Innovation Foundation, and Fabius Labs with a mission to advance American technological superiority. Hydra Host provides data centers and AI innovators with the GPUs and software they need to keep America ahead. While I have a personal interest in America expanding its AI and GPU advantages, on behalf of our nation's global leadership and national security, I offer the following recommendations.
Why is this type of supercomputer such a powerful deterrent? A nation with this ability can outthink, outwit, and survive its adversaries.
America is not the only country with this idea. All of America's allies in Europe have begun building their own government supercomputers and AI programs. Most worryingly, China is targeting a significant year-over-year increase of more than 50% in computing power to catch up with the United States. China is hiding the details of its cutting-edge supercomputer, and its top-secret investment is tied to President Xi Jinping's repeated threats to invade Taiwan, a leading semiconductor manufacturing partner for the West and a stepping stone to the Pacific region. They match.
Allowing China to catch up would not only be a disaster for Taiwan. That would be a catastrophe for the free world that the United States and its military and nuclear capabilities have controlled since World War II. America's superweapons once stopped global communist tyranny, and we must prepare for them to do it again.
America elected President Trump to protect America while saving taxpayers money. We then need to discuss why this is not only good defense policy, but overall one of the best investments we can make.
Unlike most military hardware, supercomputers can be used productively during peacetime to support critical government, industry, and scientific functions. We spend billions of dollars every year replenishing our military arsenals, but unlike traditional military arsenals, GPUs offer tremendous immediate utility in critical civilian applications.
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We shouldn't fear obsolescence. Advantages of scale persist even as new technologies enter the market. That means we can do more with last-generation supercomputers than with many previous-generation weapons against comparable or comparable adversaries on the battlefield. As GPU computing power increases, you can get better results regardless of the hardware generation, but the benefits of having no scale at all are overshadowed. Once missile innovation begins, will we stop improving and resupplying missiles? Free markets create unstoppable waves of innovation that we either catch up to or spend the next century chasing.
Building and maintaining a national supercomputer will bring significant manufacturing capacity and thousands of good-paying jobs to the country. National supercomputers can subsidize the construction of domestic chip manufacturing facilities in the following ways: Advance market commitment: A promise to purchase a product if it is successfully developed. Such a plan would require advance market commitment for domestically manufactured chips that would meet the needs of U.S. military purposes.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that it is better to buy chips during a supply boom than to buy them at inflated prices when something breaks. A conflict in the Pacific would likely disrupt the global semiconductor supply chain, which would need to buy chips anyway.
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The U.S. defense budget is about $800 billion, but only a fraction of that is needed to build overwhelming national security capabilities and America's industrial Leviathan. This important investment will cost less than 5% of the total military aid given to Ukraine and is roughly equivalent to the cost of 80 F-35 fighter jets. The company already has about 630 of them, and plans to deploy more in the future. Approximately 1,800 more pieces will be procured.
Investing in defense supercomputers is an investment in America's reindustrialization and jobs, America's security, and America's resilience, and we can't afford not to do it.
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Of course, simply having the world's best supercomputer does not guarantee victory or nuclear-level deterrence. Nuclear weapons and other next-generation platforms enhance, but do not replace, our military's full range of complementary capabilities and doctrine.
The U.S. military must be the most innovative and agile defense force in the world. Building strategic supercomputers is as much an important industrial policy as it is a wise defense policy.
Similarly, AI will transform and enhance the way human decision-makers wage war, but it will not replace it. If we build superclusters with the right kind of urgency, there will be a response and human strategists will have to manage an accelerated arms race. Achieving nuclear-level deterrence requires leveraging similarly powerful software and data, models, doctrine, diplomatic resources, and military infrastructure.
Our government must have the ability and audacity to advance all of the above to build a comprehensive AI defense complex before our global adversaries catch up. If you want to keep a lead, you have to use it.
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The U.S. military must be the most innovative and agile defense force in the world. Building strategic supercomputers is both smart defense policy and important industrial policy in line with existing national semiconductor goals.
The new Trump administration, along with the Department of Defense and Congress, will develop and strengthen this new pillar of the economy, make it more resilient to supply disruptions, bring critical manufacturing closer to home, and solidify America as a leading global authority. We must work together to make it happen. AI and GPUs, and giving Americans a critical tool to shape the next era of this foundational technology.
