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The U.S. Department of Energy has identified 16 federal locations for potential construction of data centers and associated energy resources. The agency on Thursday published a request for information for stakeholders, including grid operators, about the potential for projects that could be online in less than two years.
“The global race for AI dominance is the next Manhattan project, and with President Trump’s leadership and the innovation of our National Labs, the United States can and will win,” Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said in a statement. DOE “is taking important steps to leverage our domestic resources to power the AI revolution.”
The RFI aligns with plans Trump announced in January to accelerate power plant development for co-located artificial intelligence data centers using an energy emergency declaration. It is also similar to an executive order former President Biden signed in January, targeting development of AI data centers powered by clean energy. The RFI, however, does not specify clean energy will be used in powering data centers.
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