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With less than a week left in office, President Joe Biden hasn’t left a mark on the AI industry.
President Biden issued a statement executive order On Tuesday, it would allow private-sector AI companies to lease federal sites owned by the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy to build AI data centers. Companies building data centers at these sites will be required to bring enough clean energy resources online to match the electricity needed to power the data centers.
This is not a grant program. AI companies that build data centers at these federal sites must pay the full cost to build, operate, and maintain them.
In a press release, the White House said the order aims to strengthen and ensure the United States’ global leadership in AI and prevent domestic AI companies from becoming dependent on other countries for access to AI tools and infrastructure. He added that these departments will be adequately resourced to quickly and efficiently review and approve proposals for federal sites.
It is notable that the executive order specifically focuses on renewable energy here. According to the report, data centers currently consume 4% of all US energy Electric Power Scientific Research Instituteand this number is expected to increase to 9% by the end of the decade. Overall data center power demand is expected it will double in the next five yearsThis is stated in the JLL report.
This executive order comes a day after the Biden Administration announced a new decision a set of rules and guidelines Regarding AI chip exports, which places further restrictions on a number of countries, including adversaries such as China and Russia, while imposing a 50,000 chip quota for the rest of the world.
The caveat is that the orders come a week before Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, which is expected to reverse many of the policies of the Biden administration.
