Overview

• The AI Action Plan lays out 90 recommendations to accelerate U.S. dominance in the technology rivalry with China.
• Three executive orders instruct agencies to exempt data center projects from NEPA review and streamline Clean Water Act permits for energy-intensive facilities.
• The administration mandates a single federal AI regulatory standard to override divergent state laws and prevent a patchwork of rules.
• A directive prohibits the federal government from contracting AI models that exhibit ideological bias, effectively banning “woke” or CRT-based systems in government use.
• Commerce and State are tasked with partnering with industry to export American AI hardware, software and full-stack packages to allied nations.