President Joe Biden this week issued one of his last executive orders, addressing the race to build domestic data centers and clean energy plants in order to retain America’s leadership in artificial intelligence.

The executive order calls on the federal departments of Defense and Energy to each identify at least three locations for private-sector data centers. It seeks to balance construction, consumer cost and environmental impact.

The government already leases federal lands for energy production, including fossil fuel exploration and renewable energy projects. Under the executive order, by February 28th, the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Energy are supposed to find at least three sites each to host new AI data centers on land that their departments manage.

The Biden administration is rolling out measures to bolster US automotive manufacturing and artificial intelligence development, as it looks to sharpen curbs on Chinese technology and tee up potential restrictions for Donald Trump,

The Biden Administration has finalised rules that will effectively ban Russian and Chinese software and hardware in vehicles sold in the United States, in a move that could have a huge global impact.