At the Operation Gigawatt Summit Friday in Park City, Utah, energy and artificial intelligence industry leaders said that AI is the next space race and the United States is already behind. And this time around, America’s biggest competitor in the race isn’t Russia, but China, and they’re already miles ahead on energy production. “China understands that whoever can produce power the fastest and the cheapest will own the future of AI,” said Sal Churi of Trust Ventures.However, energy production in the U.S. has flatlined over the past several years, even as AI data centers are built around the country, including…