White House designates 31 tech hubs across U.S. and Puerto Rico

The White House announced that it is designating 31 tech hubs across more than half the states and Puerto Rico, officials said.

The announcement frames the hubs as a national competitiveness and jobs strategy. "The White House announced today it is designating 31 tech hubs across more than half the states and Puerto Rico," Presenter A said, introducing the initiative as a formal government designation. An Agency official added, "So The US will lead the world again in innovation across across the board."

Officials said the hubs will focus investment and scaling on priority technology areas and workforce development. Presenter A listed targeted sectors as "Clean energy, medicine, biotech, and of course artificial intelligence," and said the hubs "are so important because they're going to create the jobs of the future." Presenter B described the designation as symbolic of federal commitment: "The designation is like planting, an official flag, from the US government that says, this is the place in America to scale your technologies."

Speakers tied the hub designations to workforce training and prior federal investments. The Agency official said the hubs will help ensure "workers get the skills they need to do these jobs" and framed the move as "part of a long line of transformational investments we've made since I took office." The official closed on an optimistic note, saying, "I truly believe this country is about to take off."

The transcript contains the announcement language and broad goals but does not specify which localities received designations, how funding will be allocated, or which federal agencies will administer grants or technical assistance; those details were not provided in the recorded remarks. The initiative was presented as a national-scale effort intended to promote innovation, job creation and worker training.

The remarks concluded without a recorded vote, motion or implementation timetable in the transcript; next steps such as site-level funding, agency responsibilities, and timelines were not specified.