House bill targets rising rural utility costs from AI data centers
The bipartisan legislation calls for a study from the departments of Energy, Interior and Agriculture into the impact AI data centers are having on rural areas.
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Energy agenda for Trump AI plan: Build data centers, cut clean air, water regulations
The White House’s AI Action Plan seeks to accelerate permitting and upgrade the grid to power data centers, chipping away at environmental protections along the way.
Transforming government IT modernization and cloud migration with AI
How AI can help agencies modernize smarter, migrate faster, and reclaim "minutes on mission."
Biden issues last-minute order to advance AI infrastructure in US
The executive order focuses on collaboration with industry, advancing economic competitiveness, and building next-generation data centers to support AI.
White House pushes AI infrastructure following meeting with tech CEOs
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.
Drivers for on-prem vs. cloud investments
A new report highlights government leaders’ assumptions and expectations about where they plan to concentrate their infrastructure investments and what factors shape those strategies.
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NSF to invest $37M in next-gen networks, computer systems
The foundation's investment in next-generation networks is its largest public-private partnership to date.
Government clouds now handle more IT work than federal data centers
Agencies still depend on multiple IT environments for executing critical computing workloads. But government-approved clouds now top where those workloads are managed, according to a new survey.
Agencies continue to struggle with data center optimization
A total of 25 GAO recommendations regarding virtualization, availability, advanced energy metering and underutilized server metrics have gone unaddressed.
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awards GDIT $4.5B data center contract
GDIT will carry out work for the five-year contract at IC and DOD locations worldwide.