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American nuclear weapons, especially the atomic bomb, ended World War II. They then averted a hot war with the Soviet Union and cemented decades of global stability. The decisive superweapons of the next great conflict will be digital, running on supercomputers (specifically specialized chips called ‘GPUs’), with the power to break codes, cripple our enemies’ economies and destroy their weapons from within . Just as the US military needs the best planes and ships in the world, the US military needs a state-of-the-art supercomputer to deter future conflicts before they start. Our adversaries must understand that attacking the United States or our allies in Taiwan will put them in the crosshairs of the world’s most formidable cyber weapon and will not prevent us from producing one.
A strategic supercomputer saves lives and ends wars by powering futuristic technologies at a scale and speed never before possible. This means our military leaders can simulate battles before they occur to identify weaknesses and opportunities. Our frontline troops will enjoy a crushing information advantage thanks to systems that sift through data from thousands of satellites, drones and sensors around the world. Pro-Trump, Pro-America companies like Anduril and Palantir have already achieved multi-billion dollar valuations by building AI-powered systems and software ranging from autonomous fighter jets to kamikaze drone swarms.
Why is this kind supercomputer such a powerful deterrent? A country with this capability can outpace, outmaneuver, outmaneuver, and outlast its opponents, relative to its available computing power. AI both accelerates the development of new technologies and ensures that existing technologies work faster and better. A strategic supercomputer could build and deploy innovative AI cyber weapons while protecting U.S. leadership in both industry and warfare.
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In the interest of candor, I should note that I am a series founder whose mission to further America’s technological dominance led me to found Hydra Host, the Foundation of American Innovation, and Fabius Labs. Hydra Host provides data centers and AI innovators with the GPUs and software they need to maintain American primacy. While I have a personal interest in America scaling its AI and GPU dominance, I make the following recommendation on behalf of my country’s global leadership and national security.
Why is this kind of supercomputer such a powerful deterrent? A country with this capability can outwit, outmaneuver, outmaneuver and outlast its opponents.
America is not the only country that has this idea. America’s allies in Europe have all started building their own supercomputer and government AI programs. Most worryingly, China has set a target of a massive increase in computing power of more than 50% annually to overtake the United States. China is hiding the details of its most advanced supercomputers, and its secret investments coincide with President Xi Jinping’s repeated threats to invade Taiwan, the West’s leading chipmaking partner and a springboard to the rest of the Pacific.
Allowing China to catch up would not only be a disaster for Taiwan. It would be a disaster for the United States and the free world, which has managed our military and nuclear capabilities since World War II. American superweapons once prevented global communist tyranny, and we must prepare for them to do so again.
America chosen President Trump to defend America while saving taxpayers money. Next, we need to discuss why this is not only good defense policy, but also one of the best investments we can make overall.
Unlike most military hardware, supercomputers can be deployed productively in peacetime, supporting critical government, industrial, and scientific functions. We spend billions every year supplementing our military armaments, and unlike traditional military armaments, GPUs provide immediate and enormous utility for critical civilian applications.
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We should not be afraid of aging. The economies of scale persist even as new technologies come to market, meaning we can do more with a last-generation supercomputer than we can with many last-generation weapons against a peer or near-peer on the battlefield. More GPU computing power delivers superior results regardless of hardware generation, far overshadowing the benefits of no scaling at all. Would we stop improving and adding to our rockets if rocket innovation took off? Free markets generate an unstoppable wave of innovation that we can catch or chase into the next century.
Building and maintaining a national supercomputer will provide crucial manufacturing capabilities and thousands of good-paying jobs. A national supercomputer could subsidize the construction of domestic chip manufacturing facilities advance market commitments: the promise to purchase a product once it has been successfully developed. Such a program would require advance market commitments on domestically manufactured chips that meet the needs of U.S. military objectives.
The Covid-19 pandemic showed us that it’s better to buy chips during a supply boom than at competitive prices when something breaks. If conflicts arise in the Pacific, the global semiconductor supply chain will likely collapse, and we will have to buy the chips anyway.
The US defense budget is approximately $800 billion, and only a small portion of that is needed to build a dominant national security capability and America’s Industrial Leviathan. This crucial investment would cost less than 5% of total military aid to Ukraine and would be approximately equal to the cost of 80 F-35 fighter jets, of which we already have about 630 and plan to approximately 1,800 additional purchases.
Investing in a dedicated national defense supercomputer is an investment in American reindustrialization and jobs, American security, and American resilience – and we can’t afford not to do it.
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Of course, owning the world’s largest supercomputer does not in itself guarantee victory or deterrence at the nuclear level. Nuclear weapons and other next-generation platforms augment, but do not replace, our nuclear weapons the full range of the military’s complementary capabilities and learn.
The U.S. military should be the most innovative and agile defense force in the world. Building a strategic supercomputer is both a sensible defense policy and a crucial industrial policy.
In the same way, AI is transforming and expandingbut does not replace the way human decision makers wage war. If we build our supercluster the right way and with the right urgency, there will be a response and human strategists will have to control the arms race they have accelerated. Achieving nuclear-level deterrence requires exploiting similarly powerful software and the data, models, doctrine, diplomatic assets and military infrastructure.
Our government must have the capacity and courage to move forward on all of the above and build a comprehensive AI defense complex before a global adversary catches up. We have to use our lead if we want to keep it.
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The U.S. military should be the most innovative and agile defense force in the world. Building a strategic supercomputer is both a sensible defense policy and a crucial industrial policy, aligned with existing national semiconductor goals.
The new Trump administration, along with the Ministry of Defense and Congress must work together to develop and strengthen this new pillar of our economy, build our resilience to supply disruptions, bring critical manufacturing closer to home, solidify the U.S. as the leading authority on AI and GPUs, and putting the American people in a key position. lever to shape the next era of this foundational technology.
