{"id":252411,"date":"2026-05-22T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/burgum-touts-ai-energy-in-bismarck-speech\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:00:25","slug":"burgum-touts-ai-energy-in-bismarck-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/burgum-touts-ai-energy-in-bismarck-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Burgum Touts AI, Energy in Bismarck Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knoxradio.com\/2026\/05\/22\/burgum-touts-ai-energy-in-bismarck-speech\/\">Burgum Touts AI, Energy in Bismarck Speech<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knoxradio.com\/2026\/05\/22\/burgum-touts-ai-energy-in-bismarck-speech\/\">https:\/\/knoxradio.com\/2026\/05\/22\/burgum-touts-ai-energy-in-bismarck-speech\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 08:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"knoxradio.com\">knoxradio.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) \u2014 Interior Secretary Doug Burgum praised artificial intelligence, energy dominance and oil industry innovation in a winding speech to the oil and gas industry in Bismarck on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>While Burgum\u2019s speech focused on domestic energy production, he also defended the Trump administration\u2019s war in Iran and the \u201cdetour\u201d it has taken. He said Iran\u2019s government is a terrorist group that has led a \u201ctyrannical reign\u201d over its own citizens for decades, and the United States is the only country capable of taking action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a gift to the world,\u201d Burgum said.<\/p>\n<p>Domestically, the former governor of North Dakota doubled down on artificial intelligence and data centers as both a driver of energy demand for the oil industry and a tool for the public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knoxradio.com\/2026\/05\/22\/burgum-touts-ai-energy-in-bismarck-speech\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burgum Touts AI, Energy in Bismarck Speech https:\/\/knoxradio.com\/2026\/05\/22\/burgum-touts-ai-energy-in-bismarck-speech\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-22 08:31:00 Source Domain: knoxradio.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2404\/files\/2025\/01\/gettyimages-1200x675.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252413,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252411\/revisions\/252413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}