Colorado AI · The opportunity
The biggest economic opportunity in a generation.
The AI era can make life better for every Coloradan: prosperity that reaches people, more time, security, and the freedom to pursue purpose, creativity, community, and contribution.
The opportunity
The opportunity
The AI era runs on chips, power, water, and the breakthroughs that come next, and Colorado can build all of it here. This is the work this generation of Coloradans should take up together.
- Photonic Chips
- Quantum Systems
- Fusion Reactors
- Renewable Energy
- Water Systems
The opportunity, in three numbers
The opportunity, in three numbers
$15.7T
Global AI economy
by 2030 · PwC
$1.5T
AI-driven chip market
by 2030 · TSMC
$1T+
AI infrastructure investment
annual by 2030 · Goldman Sachs
Colorado is already building it
Colorado is already building it
Colorado is already building every layer of the AI stack. These are some of the companies, labs, and institutions doing it.
Make the chips
Colorado already runs the full chip value chain, 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
Power the chips
Colorado builds the wind, solar, geothermal, and storage to power the AI era now, and is building laser fusion for what comes next.
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
Invent what comes next
Colorado runs the nation's largest quantum cluster, the discovery engine for the materials the next chips and the next grid will be made of.
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
The environment that lets builders build
The environment that lets builders build
None of this happens without builders, so the state's job is to keep them here. Colorado is already the third most concentrated tech economy in the nation, about 10% of its jobs and 20% of its GDP.
The universities and the Boulder national labs are the research engine, and an apprenticeship-led workforce is the model the top innovation economies run on.
Fast-track permitting, university commercialization support, and a startup-accessible Colorado Responsible AI designation keep the chips, the energy, and the quantum work being done here.
Colorado's AI rules stay light, with a safe harbor for responsible builders.
We're forming a movement to lead Colorado into the AI era.