The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a $100 million initiative dubbed the ‘NSF State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs’ to support AI-enabled scientific research and discovery efforts.
By establishing the Hubs, NSF said it hopes to address the uneven access to AI infrastructure that persists across the US and implement recommendations from a report published by White House Office of Science and Technology policy director Michael Kratsios in July 2026.
In the report, Kratsios outlined obstacles currently faced by researchers in the US and provided a number of recommendations focused on four main pillars.
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According to an NSF document outlining the program, each AI Infrastructure Hub will be established as a “flexible state or regional consortium of state and local governments, research institutions, philanthropies, and the private sector.”
