President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an executive order that opens federal land for private development of infrastructure and the energy supply needed to create advanced artificial intelligence models in the United States.
The order, which mentions “clean power” a dozen times, dovetails with other Biden administration actions in the climate sector that President-elect Donald Trump has said he plans to revoke.
It directs the Pentagon and the Energy Department to lease and host gigawatt-scale AI data centers operated by private companies and ensure that such sites have access to high-capacity power transmission lines. Private companies that are chosen to operate such data centers would be required to develop and bring online clean energy sources.
