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Biden administration opens up federal land to AI data centers
Under this Executive Order, AI companies can apply to lease federal land from the DoD and DoE to build AI data centers.
It added that the proper resources will be awarded for these departments to ensure they can inspect and approve bids for federal sites quickly and efficiently. This executive order comes just one day after the Biden Administration announced a new set of rules and guidelines regarding AI chip exports that imposed further restrictions on a number of countries, including adversaries like China and Russia, while also imposing a 50,000 chip quota for the majority of the rest of the world. The caveat is that these orders come just a week before Donald Trump returns to the presidency, where he is expected to reverse a lot of Biden administration policies.
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