{"id":16060,"date":"2025-04-04T16:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16060"},"modified":"2025-04-06T16:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T16:03:35","slug":"energy-department-announces-plan-to-accelerate-ai-by-locating-data-centers-on-federal-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16060","title":{"rendered":"Energy Department Announces Plan to Accelerate AI by Locating Data Centers on Federal Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/04\/energy-department-announces-plan-to-accelerate-ai-by-locating-data-centers-on-federal-lands\/\">https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/04\/energy-department-announces-plan-to-accelerate-ai-by-locating-data-centers-on-federal-lands\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<h5>by Kevin Killough<\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/doe-identifies-16-federal-sites-across-country-data-center-and-ai-infrastructure\">Energy Department has announced plans<\/a>\u00a0to co-locate data centers and new energy infrastructure on agency lands.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The goal, according to the announcement Thursday, is to accelerate AI development in line with President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/unleashing-american-energy\/\">Unleashing American Energy<\/a>\u201d executive order.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The department identified 16 lands managed by the DOE, including national laboratories across the country, as potential sites for these projects. The sites would allow projects to have expedited permitting, and projects could include nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe global race for AI dominance is the next Manhattan Project, and with President Trump\u2019s leadership and the innovation of our National Labs, the United States can and will win,\u201d Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said.<\/p>\n<p>The Department issued a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-04\/RFI%20to%20Inform%20Public%20Bids%20to%20Construct%20AI%20Infrastructure%20%28website%20copy%29.pdf\">request for information<\/a>\u00a0seeking input from data center developers, energy developers, and the broader public to further advance this partnership.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n<p><em>Kevin Killough is a reporter for Just the News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 1px;border: none;color: #000;background-color: #aaa\" \/>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.1;color: #aaa\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px\">Reprinted with permission from <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/energy\/energy-department-announces-plan-accelerate-ai-locating-data-centers-federal\">Just the News<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<hr style=\"height: 1px;border: none;color: #000;background-color: #aaa\" \/>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/04\/energy-department-announces-plan-to-accelerate-ai-by-locating-data-centers-on-federal-lands\/\">Energy Department Announces Plan to Accelerate AI by Locating Data Centers on Federal Lands<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\">The Star News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/04\/energy-department-announces-plan-to-accelerate-ai-by-locating-data-centers-on-federal-lands\/ by Kevin Killough \u00a0 The\u00a0Energy Department has announced plans\u00a0to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":16046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-daily-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16061,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060\/revisions\/16061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}