Biden signs executive order aimed at growing AI infrastructure in the US

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that 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. It also directs certain agencies to make federal sites available for AI data centers and new clean power facilities. The agencies will run “competitive solicitations” from private companies to build AI data centers on those federal sites, senior administration officials said. “From a national security standpoint, it’s really critical to find a pathway for building the data centers and power infrastructure to support frontier AI operations here in the United States,” he said, adding that building data centers in the U.S. will prevent “adversaries from accessing these powerful systems to the detriment of our military and our national security.” That type of investment will also prevent the U.S. from growing dependent on other countries to access AI tools, Chhabra said.