President Joe Biden this week issued one of his last executive orders, addressing the race to build domestic data centers and clean energy plants in order to retain America’s leadership in artificial intelligence.

Under this Executive Order, AI companies can apply to lease federal land from the DoD and DoE to build AI data centers.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday to provide federal support to address massive energy needs for fast-growing advanced artificial intelligence data centers, the White House said.

Energy storage company Energy Vault and nuclear power start-up NuCube Energy disclosed a partnership on Wednesday.

Amid a lot of gen AI hype, managing the increasing energy needs of data centers will in part come down to not using gen AI for everything.

The rapid growth and huge electricity needs spawned by the artificial intelligence revolution spurs a directive to lease federal sites owned by Defense and Energy departments for power supply centers.

President Biden issued an executive order to permit data centers on federal lands in a move aimed at bolstering clean energy and protecting national security during a boom in artificial intelligence