Florida Policy Index

Hydrogen may play an important role in transportation, manufacturing, energy storage, and resilient power generation. But the flood of private capital and public funding into the sector has also created opportunities for promoters to sell ambition as achievement. Recent fraud cases reveal a consistent pattern: the technology may be legitimate, while the advertised facilities, customers, production capacity, and commercial milestones are not.

Florida AI policy is emerging at the center of U.S.–China strategic competition, where a fragmented, state-by-state regulatory approach risks constraining American innovation in a critical national security technology.

For years, the digital economy was defined by its lack of physical constraints. Cloud computing, mobile platforms, and software-driven services created the perception of a system that could scale without friction—light, flexible, and largely detached from the physical world. Artificial intelligence is reversing that model.