President Biden's executive order addresses the race to build domestic data centers and clean energy plants in order to retain America's AI leadership.

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.

Biden wants to roll out more powerful AI data centers across the US “Frontier AI data centers” will be able to develop powerful AI models Operators must also factor in clean energy and security measures US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to expedite the construction of data centers in the country.