A Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation sign is displayed outside of the J. Edgar Hoover building on July 2, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
From left, Paige Lambermont, research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Marsden Hanna, head of energy and sustainability policy for Google, and Eric Masanet, UC Santa Barbara professor testify during the House Science and Technology Committee Investigations and Oversight Subcomittee hearing on “Powering America’s AI Future: Assessing Policy Options to Increase Data Center Infrastructure” in the Rayburn House Office Building on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
The Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Lab launched an institute to optimize data centers, and the Pacific Northwest National Lab issued an RFI to inform future buildouts.
For the federal government to move beyond isolated AI experiments, agencies must adopt an "AI factory" model that securely aligns data, infrastructure and people to deliver mission-critical…
President Joe Biden discusses AI and other topics during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Oct. 2, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The executive order focuses on collaboration with industry, advancing economic competitiveness, and building next-generation data centers to support AI.
Plans to launch a task force on data center infrastructure were revealed after a White House meeting that included the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and others.