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The opportunity

50,000+

new good-paying jobs Colorado can add across these industries by 2035, a state goal.

Building the AI economy here means durable jobs, a share of the wealth, and a lower cost of living. The opportunity runs in three parts: make the chips, power them, and invent what comes next.

Colorado already makes the chips AI runs on, and can double the jobs by 2035

The next leap in chips is photonic: computing and moving data with light at a fraction of the energy, heat, and cooling water. That cooler compute is the direct answer to Denver's data-center moratorium.

  • Colorado can make these chips on the mature manufacturing nodes it already runs, no bleeding-edge fab required.
  • The full value chain is here, from materials to design to the only flexible-substrate foundry outside Asia.

Companies

  • Microchipmicrocontrollers and chip fabrication
  • Broadcomnetworking and custom AI chips
  • Entegrissemiconductor materials
  • NVIDIAAI GPU design
  • AMDAI processor design
  • Micronmemory chips for AI
  • InnovaFlexflexible-substrate chip foundry

Research

  • NIST BoulderCHIPS metrology research
  • Colorado School of Minessemiconductor research and engineering
  • UCCSmicroelectronics research lab

Organizations

  • Colorado OEDITCHIPS and semiconductor ecosystem program

6,000+

chip jobs by 2035, up from ~2,900 today, a state goal

Colorado already builds renewable energy, and can power the AI era with it now, and unlimited fusion next

AI's real limit is power, and Colorado can make that its advantage. Pairing new data centers with new wind, sun, geothermal, and storage adds renewable supply to the grid instead of draining it.

  • This turns AI's appetite for power into the largest renewable-energy build the state has ever done, and in time into unlimited fusion.
  • Geothermal, the renewable that runs around the clock, is the always-on power a data center needs.
  • Colorado already manufactures wind, solar, and batteries, runs a nation-leading geothermal program, and anchors the nation's renewable-energy lab.

Companies

  • Marvel Fusionlaser fusion facility in Fort Collins
  • Xcimer Energylaser fusion energy
  • Peak Energysodium-ion grid storage for data centers
  • Vestaswind turbine manufacturing
  • VSK Energysolar module manufacturing
  • ZGEO EnergyColorado utility-scale geothermal
  • Solid Powersolid-state battery manufacturing
  • In-Situwater monitoring instruments

Research

  • National Laboratory of the Rockies (formerly NREL)federal energy research
  • CSU ATLAS Fusion Hublaser fusion research
  • Colorado School of Mines WE2STwater and energy research

Organizations

  • Colorado Energy Officestate renewable-energy programs

13,000+

renewable-energy jobs Colorado can add by 2035, a state goal (Colorado Energy Office)

Colorado runs the nation's largest quantum cluster, and can invent what comes next

Quantum computing is the discovery engine. Designing the cheaper chips, better batteries, and fusion magnets the first two cards depend on is a quantum problem ordinary computers cannot solve.

  • Colorado holds the strongest hand in the country: the nation's largest quantum cluster and the deep science behind it.
  • Quantinuum measured the electron-pairing behind superconductivity on its Helios machine in 2025.
  • No material designed by a quantum computer is in use yet, and that is exactly the race Colorado intends to win.

Companies

  • Quantinuumtrapped-ion quantum computers
  • Infleqtionneutral-atom quantum computing and sensing
  • IonQtrapped-ion quantum R&D
  • Atom Computingneutral-atom quantum computers
  • Maybell Quantumquantum cryogenics systems
  • Vescentphotonics and laser systems
  • KMLabsultrafast lasers and photonics

Research

  • JILANIST and CU Boulder quantum institute
  • CU BoulderCUbit Quantum Initiative
  • CSUatomic and quantum optics research

Organizations

  • Elevate Quantumfederal quantum tech hub consortium

30,000+

Coloradans building quantum by 2035, up from ~3,000 today (Elevate Quantum)

What this creates

2.67x

jobs created across Colorado for every AI and tech job (Colorado Technology Association).

Built in Colorado, these industries create jobs and a stronger economy for every Coloradan

Every chip fab, renewable-energy plant, and quantum lab built here multiplies into work across the state. The next leaders can keep that growth in Colorado by supporting the industries building it.

The ask

We ask Colorado's next leaders to support these industries as they grow here, and to endorse the movement.

Check the ones you want your next leaders to deliver. Your picks come with you when you join.

0 of 3 on this pillar,0 of 10 pledges across the framework.

Colorado can be the manufacturing leader for chips, energy, and quantum, made and invented in one state, the capital of AI in the country.

See the full ten-pledge scorecard

Sources

Colorado chip jobs, about 2,900 today: SIA. Semiconductor expansion (Microchip, Entegris): CHIPS Program Office / OEDIT.

Quantum workforce about 3,000 today to 30,000 by 2035: OEDIT / Elevate Quantum.

Renewable-energy workforce need, about 13,000 by 2030: Colorado Energy Office. Tech job multiplier: Colorado Technology Association, 2024.