Trump signs executive order for AI project called Genesis Mission to
boost scientific discoveries
[November 25, 2025]
By THOMAS BEAUMONT
President Donald Trump is directing the federal government to combine
efforts with tech companies and universities to convert government data
into scientific discoveries, acting on his push to make artificial
intelligence the engine of the nation’s economic future.
Trump unveiled the “Genesis Mission” as part of an executive order he
signed Monday that directs the Department of Energy and national labs to
build a digital platform to concentrate the nation's scientific data in
one place.
It solicits private sector and university partners to use their AI
capability to help the government solve engineering, energy and national
security problems, including streamlining the nation's electric grid,
according to White House officials who spoke to reporters on condition
of anonymity to describe the order before it was signed. Officials made
no specific mention of seeking medical advances as part of the project.
“The Genesis Mission will bring together our Nation’s research and
development resources -- combining the efforts of brilliant American
scientists, including those at our national laboratories, with
pioneering American businesses; world-renowned universities; and
existing research infrastructure, data repositories, production plants,
and national security sites -- to achieve dramatic acceleration in AI
development and utilization,” the executive order says.
The administration portrayed the effort as the government's most
ambitious marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo
space missions of the late 1960s and early 1970s, even as it had cut
billions of dollars in federal funding for scientific research and
thousands of scientists had lost their jobs and funding.
Trump is increasingly counting on the tech sector and the development of
AI to power the U.S. economy, made clear last week as he hosted Saudi
Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The monarch has committed to
investing $1 trillion, largely from the Arab nation's oil and natural
gas reserves, to pivot his nation into becoming an AI data hub.
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The Department of Energy in Washington, May 1, 2015. (AP
Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
 For the U.S.'s part, funding was
appropriated to the Energy Department as part of the massive
tax-break and spending bill signed into law by Trump in July, White
House officials said.
As AI raises concerns that its heavy use of electricity may be
contributing to higher utility rates in the nearer term, which is a
political risk for Trump, administration officials argued that rates
will come down as the technology develops. They said the increased
demand will build capacity in existing transmission lines and bring
down costs per unit of electricity.
Data centers needed to fuel AI accounted for about 1.5% of the
world's electricity consumption last year, and those facilities'
energy consumption is predicted to more than double by 2030,
according to the International Energy Agency. That increase could
lead to burning more fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas,
which release greenhouse gases that contribute to warming
temperatures, sea level rise and extreme weather.
The project will rely on national labs' supercomputers but will also
use supercomputing capacity being developed in the private sector.
The project's use of public data including national security
information along with private sector supercomputers prompted
officials to issue assurances that there would be controls to
respect protected information.
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