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13 documents · busiest Jul 2025

AI regulation, education, supply chains, and cybersecurity; excludes foreign investment restrictions in specific companies.

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Jul 23, 2025 · executive orderAccelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure
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Executive Order EO 14318

Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure

SignedDonald Trump · Jul 23, 2025

Speeds up federal permits for AI data centers and related power plants on federal and private land.

Does not create new funding; agencies must use existing financial tools within current budgets. Does not override existing environmental laws, only directs agencies to streamline reviews under them.

What it does (12)

Policy and Purpose
- Directs agencies to reduce regulatory barriers to data center development
Encouraging Qualifying Projects
- Authorizes Commerce to provide loans, grants, and tax incentives for large data center projects
Revocation of Executive Order 14141
- Revokes EO 14141 (January 14, 2025) on advancing AI infrastructure leadership
Efficient Environmental Reviews
- Agencies must identify existing exemptions from detailed environmental reviews for data center projects within 10 days
- Federal grants under 50% of project costs are presumed not to trigger full environmental review
Efficiency and Transparency Through FAST-41
- FPISC may mark projects as 'transparency' or 'covered' projects to publish on a permitting dashboard with expedited schedules within 30 days of notification
Streamlining of Permitting Review
- EPA must develop or modify air, water, and waste regulations to expedite data center permitting
- EPA must identify and develop guidance to reuse Brownfield and Superfund sites within 180 days
Biological and Water Permitting Efficiencies
- Interior and Commerce must conduct programmatic endangered species consultation for 10 years of data center construction
- Army Corps must review Clean Water Act nationwide permits to streamline water permitting within 180 days
Federal Lands Availability
- Interior and Energy must offer leases and permits on federal land for data center projects
- Defense must identify military sites and lease land for data center and power infrastructure

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