new good-paying jobs Colorado can add across these industries by 2035, a state goal.
The AI economy will be one of the largest in history, and Colorado can build its share here. The opportunity runs in three parts. Colorado can make the chips AI runs on, research and build the quantum and photonics hardware that comes next, and create the clean energy and water this future will demand.
Colorado makes what AI is made of
Colorado already builds across the chip stack, from materials to design to the only flexible-substrate foundry outside Asia. The full value chain is here.
Microchip · microcontrollers and chip fabrication
Broadcom · networking and custom AI chips
Entegris · semiconductor materials
NVIDIA · AI GPU design
AMD · AI processor design
Micron · memory chips for AI
InnovaFlex · flexible-substrate chip foundry
NIST Boulder · CHIPS metrology research
Colorado School of Mines · semiconductor research and engineering
UCCS · microelectronics research lab
Colorado OEDIT · CHIPS and semiconductor ecosystem program
Company Research Organization
6,000+
chip jobs by 2035, up from ~2,900 today, a state goal
Colorado leads on quantum and photonics
Colorado runs the nation's largest quantum cluster and anchors federal quantum and photonics research in Boulder. Continuing to fund the research and the build keeps Colorado at the frontier of what comes after today's chips.
Quantinuum · trapped-ion quantum computers
Infleqtion · neutral-atom quantum computing and sensing
IonQ · trapped-ion quantum R&D
Atom Computing · neutral-atom quantum computers
Maybell Quantum · quantum cryogenics systems
Vescent · photonics and laser systems
KMLabs · ultrafast lasers and photonics
JILA · NIST and CU Boulder quantum institute
CU Boulder · CUbit Quantum Initiative
CSU · atomic and quantum optics research
Elevate Quantum · federal quantum tech hub consortium
Company Research Organization
30,000+
Coloradans building quantum by 2035, up from ~3,000 today (Elevate Quantum)
Colorado builds the clean energy and water the economy needs
The AI economy runs on power and water, and Colorado can lead by building that infrastructure out. The state already manufactures wind, solar, and batteries, anchors federal renewable-energy research, and holds deep water expertise, the foundation everything depends on, from data centers to family homes.
Marvel Fusion · laser fusion facility in Fort Collins
Xcimer Energy · laser fusion energy
Peak Energy · sodium-ion grid storage for data centers
Vestas · wind turbine manufacturing
VSK Energy · solar module manufacturing
Solid Power · solid-state battery manufacturing
In-Situ · water monitoring instruments
National Laboratory of the Rockies (formerly NREL) · federal energy research
CSU ATLAS Fusion Hub · laser fusion research
Colorado School of Mines WE2ST · water and energy research
Colorado Energy Office · state clean-energy programs
Company Research Organization
13,000+
clean-energy jobs Colorado can add by 2035, a state goal (Colorado Energy Office)
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 shared abundance
Every chip fab, quantum lab, and clean-energy plant built here multiplies into work across the state. The next leaders can keep that growth in Colorado by backing the industries building it.
The ask
The ask
We ask Colorado's next leaders to back these industries as they grow here, and to endorse the movement.
Win federal investment across chips, quantum, photonics, and fusion, and keep what Colorado builds with R&D credits and procurement preference.
Build an apprenticeship-led workforce and broad AI training, so the jobs and skills reach Coloradans.
Build out the clean energy and water infrastructure the whole economy depends on, with fast permitting and clean-energy procurement.
Colorado can be the manufacturing leader for chips, quantum, photonics, and energy.
