[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 126 (Thursday, August 1, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5796]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3222. Mr. HEINRICH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 10__. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON HIGH-PERFORMANCE 
                   COMPUTING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENERGY 
                   EFFICIENCY.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Energy, acting jointly 
     through the Under Secretary for Science and Innovation and 
     the Under Secretary for Nuclear Security, shall implement a 
     research and development program (referred to in this section 
     as the ``program'') to substantially improve the 
     computational energy efficiency of high-performance computing 
     and artificial intelligence at the Department of Energy and 
     the National Nuclear Security Administration.
       (b) Target.--The program shall set a target of improving 
     the average energy efficiency of high-performance computing 
     and artificial intelligence computations by a factor of not 
     less than 10 during the period beginning on January 1, 2025, 
     and ending on December 31, 2029.
       (c) Considerations.--The program shall take into account 
     all aspects of data center energy efficiency, including--
       (1) software architecture;
       (2) hardware architecture, including computation, memory, 
     and networking;
       (3) data center design;
       (4) electrical power generation, storage, and transmission; 
     and
       (5) workflow management.
       (d) Collaboration.--The Secretary of Energy shall--
       (1) collaborate with industry partners from all aspects of 
     the high-performance computing and artificial intelligence 
     ecosystem in implementing the program; and
       (2) to the maximum extent feasible, ensure that any 
     learnings from the program are shared with commercial vendors 
     in the high-performance computing and artificial intelligence 
     ecosystem with the goal of improving overall energy 
     efficiency of high-performance computing and artificial 
     intelligence computations in the United States.
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