President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed what the administration calls an “ambitious” executive order on artificial intelligence. The EO seeks to ensure the infrastructure needed for advanced AI operations, such as large-scale data centers and new clean power facilities, can be built quickly and at scale in the United States, AP reported.
The EO directs the federal agencies, particularly DoD and DoE, to accelerate large-scale AI infrastructure development at government sites, while imposing requirements and safeguards on the developers building on those locations and adapting new clean power facilities. Those agencies will help facilitate the infrastructure’s interconnection to the electric grid and help speed up the permitting process.
The tech industry has long relied on data centers to run online services, from email and social media to financial transactions. Now new AI technology behind chatbots and other generative AI tools requires even more powerful computation capability to create and operate. A DoE report last month estimated that the electricity needed for data centers in the U.S. tripled over the past decade and is projected to double or triple again by 2028. The report estimates that AI could consume up to 12 percent of the nation’s electricity by then.
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By John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor
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