Overview
- Undersecretary Dario Gil announced the first $320 million for the American Science Cloud and the Transformational Model Consortia at a House Science Committee hearing.
- The funding will kickstart curation of decades of national-lab datasets and begin core computing infrastructure to enable a new generation of AI models.
- DOE says prototype workflows already let scientists pose questions, auto-provision supercomputer time, analyze outputs, and trigger experiments with feedback loops.
- To enforce tempo, Gil meets weekly with all 17 lab directors, DOE is standing up a program management team with recruiting underway, and success metrics are being defined.
- Security is a stated priority as the platform spans open-weight and classified models, while outside commentary urges enforceable accountability to prevent bureaucratic delay.