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 and at scale in the United States.

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.

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According to Axios, the goal is to prevent China from obtaining advanced AI chips through third countries. The Biden administration previously rolled out export controls that ban the sale of Nvidia Corp.

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

The government already leases federal lands for energy production, including fossil fuel exploration and renewable energy projects. Under the executive order, by February 28th, the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Energy are supposed to find at least three sites each to host new AI data centers on land that their departments manage.

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