Data center developers with shovel-ready projects that can be operating before 2028 have until May 7 to respond to the Trump administration’s call for locating on sites within Department of Energy properties.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said offering data center co-location leases near, or on, department lands is a genesis of President Donald Trump’s whole-of-government National Energy Emergency declaration and his Jan. 23 ‘Removing Barriers To American Leadership In Artificial Intelligence’ executive order.
The department’s laboratories and lands will play key roles in growing the electric grid to ensure the nation remains on the cutting edge of advancements in artificial intelligence and quantum computing, developments that will define 21st century economies, he said in an April 3 announcement….