President-elect Donald Trump has promised to scrap his predecessor’s artificial intelligence policies, but Republicans say the latest energy-focused effort to scale up the technology’s infrastructure aligns with some of their goals.
President Joe Biden’s executive order Tuesday called for accelerating energy permitting processes and freeing up federal lands for companies to construct new AI data centers. The move aims to help meet rising demand for the emerging tech.
Trump has largely criticized Biden’s AI regulatory approach as hindering innovation. But expanding energy production and building data centers to support the AI boom is a top priority for Trump and Republicans, ...