With only a week left in office, President Joe Biden has yet to leave his mark on the AI industry.
President Biden announced. Executive order Private sector AI companies will be allowed to lease federally owned space owned by the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy to build AI data centers. Companies building data centers at these sites will need to bring online enough clean energy sources to match the electricity needed to power the data centers.
This is not a grant program. The AI companies that build data centers at these federal sites have to build them; You will need to pay the full cost to operate and maintain.
The White House statement said the order aims to strengthen America's global leadership in AI and prevent other countries from accessing domestic AI companies' access to AI tools and infrastructure. It said that appropriate resources will be allocated to quickly and efficiently vet bids for Federal Sites.
An executive order emphasizing renewable energy here seems noteworthy. Data centers currently consume 4% of all US power. Electric Power Research InstituteAnd that figure is expected to rise to 9 percent by the end of the decade. Anticipated data center power demand in general. Double that in the next five years.According to a report by JLL.
The order comes a day after the Biden administration issued a new order. Rules and guidelines are set. It also imposed a 50,000 chip quota for most of the rest of the world regarding the export of AI chips to many countries, including adversaries such as China and Russia.
The warning comes a week before Donald Trump returns to the presidency and is expected to reverse many of Biden's administration policies.