Outgoing President Joe Biden took further steps to uphold his administration’s tech policy agenda in the face of the upcoming transition, signing an executive order on Tuesday that will utilize federal land for data center development in a bid to continue the U.S.’s dominance in artificial intelligence innovation.
Marrying ambitions for leadership in AI innovation with clean energy goals, the EO will ask the Departments of Defense and Energy to lease federal land sites to private sector entities to construct frontier AI data centers “at speed and scale,” supported by renewable energy…
Source: Biden orders federal land to be leased for AI data center development. By Alexandra Kelley, January 14, 2025. NextGov.
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