On Thursday, senior Biden administration officials and industry leaders, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, met at the White House to discuss how to meet the massive infrastructure demands of AI projects.

According to sources, attendees from the tech sector included Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, Google President Ruth Porat, and Microsoft President Brad Smith. Government officials present included Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, President’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm. Representatives from the energy industry also attended.

A White House official said the discussion focused on strengthening public-private partnerships in developing AI data centers in the United States. Sources said topics included facility permitting, workforce, power demand, and their economic impact.