Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure
Headline: Accelerates Permitting for Large Artificial Intelligence Data Centers
What it does: Agencies must speed permitting, offer land and financial support, and use streamlined environmental reviews for qualifying AI data center and component projects.
- Speeds construction timelines for large AI data centers and related infrastructure.
- Promotes reuse of Brownfield and Superfund sites through faster environmental review.
- Makes federal lands and some military sites available for leasing and development.
Summary
This order directs federal agencies to speed up permits and approvals for very large artificial intelligence data centers and the related infrastructure that powers them.
It defines qualifying projects (including facilities with more than 100 megawatts of new load or major investments) and directs agencies to offer financial support, use federal land, and apply faster review tools like NEPA categorical exclusions and the FAST-41 permitting process.
It also instructs the EPA to identify Brownfield and Superfund sites and streamline environmental and water permitting.
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