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.

President Joe Biden issued an executive order Tuesday that directs the departments of Energy and Defense to lease sites to the private sector for a build-out of “gigawatt-scale” data centers.

Developers will be required to use clean power sources to fully meet the sky-high energy demands of several new data centers.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday to provide federal support to address massive energy needs for fast-growing advanced artificial intelligence data centers, the White House said.

The executive order directs the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy to lease federal sites to companies building AI infrastructure.

President Joe Biden today signed an executive order that will make federal lands available for artificial intelligence data centers. The order also seeks to support green energy projects that can meet those facility power requirements.