- Biden wants to deploy more powerful AI data centers in the United States
- “Frontier AI data centers” will be able to develop powerful AI models
- Operators must also consider clean energy and safety measures
US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order aimed at accelerating the construction of data centers in the country.
The order focuses on the development of national AI infrastructure, as well as plans for how the White House intends to improve national security while also addressing environmental concerns such as energy production own.
Key to this order is that the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy must each identify three suitable sites for so-called “borderline AI data centers” by early 2025.
Biden wants the US to lead the way on AI data centers
The president described “state-of-the-art AI data centers” as facilities “capable of being used to develop, within a reasonable time frame, an AI model whose characteristics relate either to performance or to the computing resources used in its development, approximately correspond to or exceed the state. of art at the time of developing the AI model.
As part of planned data center expansion, President Biden said operators must match their electricity consumption on an hourly basis with clean energy like geothermal, nuclear, wind and solar .
Just days before handing over office to Donald Trump, and in light of ongoing geopolitical tensions, Biden also said campuses should impose strict physical and cyber security standards, including throughout the supply chain .
“The executive order announced today will ensure that the United States has the infrastructure – including large-scale data centers and clean energy facilities – needed to maintain America’s competitive advantage and safeguard our national security interests,” noted Vice President Kamala Harris.
The news comes shortly after President-elect Trump confirmed that Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani would invest $20 billion, or more, in US AI infrastructure.
