The White House plans to launch a 'Task Force on AI Datacenter Infrastructure,' following a meeting with several hyperscalers, AI developers, and data center builders.
The US government also plans to make it easier for AI data center builders to find power and permits as they build out multiple gigawatts across America.
Led by the National Economic Council, National Security Council, and the White House Deputy Chief of Staff’s office, the interagency Task Force will provide "streamlined coordination" on policies to advance data center development operations.
It will work with AI infrastructure companies to identify opportunities and work with agencies to ensure adequate resourcing, designate agency single points of contact, and properly prioritize AI data center development "to reflect the importance of these projects to American national security and economic interests."
It will also identify existing authorities and areas where legislative action is needed to modify or strengthen federal authorities to support AI data center development.
At the same time, the Permitting Council will work with AI data center developers to set timelines for Federal agency action and will allocate funds to agencies that accelerate evaluations for FAST-41 covered clean energy projects that support data centers.
Alongside it, The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) will identify Nationwide Permits that can help speed up the construction of eligible AI data centers and share that information with AI data center developers to expedite critical projects.
The efforts, along with DOE commitments to help data centers, came out of a roundtable stacked with high-ranking US government officials.
The panel included White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed, National Economic Advisor Lael Brainard, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi, Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy John Podesta, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.
On the industry side, participants included: Andres Gluski, CEO of AES; Ruth Porat, chief investment officer of Alphabet; Matt Garman, CEO of AWS; Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic; Michael Intrator, CEO of CoreWeave; Arshad Mansoor, CEO of Electric Power Research Institute; Calvin Butler, CEO of Exelon; Javier Olivan, COO of Meta; Brad Smith, president of Microsoft; Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia; Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI; and Chad Williams, CEO of QTS.
