WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - Microsoft ( MSFT )

President Brad Smith on Thursday will urge U.S. lawmakers to

streamline federal permitting for artificial intelligence energy

needs and open more government data sets for AI training,

according to written testimony seen by Reuters.

"America's advanced economy relies on 50-year-old

infrastructure that cannot meet the increasing electricity

demands driven by AI, reshoring of manufacturing, and increased

electrification," Smith's written testimony for the Senate

Commerce Committee AI hearing says.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will tell the committee that "as AI

systems become more capable, people will want to use them even

more. Meeting that demand requires more chips, training data,

energy, and supercomputers."