President Joe Biden has signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that seeks to ensure the infrastructure needed for advanced AI operations like data centers can be built quickly and at scale in the United States.

Under the new rules, the departments of Defense and Energy will each identify at least three sites where the private sector can build AI data centers.

The rapid growth and huge electricity needs spawned by the artificial intelligence revolution spurs a directive to lease federal sites owned by Defense and Energy departments for power supply centers.

Developers will be required to use clean power sources to fully meet the sky-high energy demands of several new data centers.