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.

U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order Tuesday directing the development of artificial intelligence data centers on six federal land sites, with a special focus on powering them with clean energy and upholding high labor standards.

Data center developers using federal land would be required to also build clean energy generation to power the facilities.

President Joe Biden has signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that seeks to ensure the infrastructure needed for advanced AI operations like data centers can be built quickly

Microsoft says it plans to spend $80 billion on building AI data centers in the 2025 financial year, a significant increase on last year.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order today opening federal land to data centers, setting up a key test on energy policy for the next As I write this morni

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

Under the new rules, the departments of Defense and Energy will each identify at least three sites where the private sector can build AI data centers.