As the United States seeks to maintain primacy in data processing and artificial intelligence, the Trump Administration is taking steps to reduce the regulatory burdens for development of data centers necessary to sustain this dominance. Perhaps chief among these is President Trump’s Executive Order 14318 issued on July 23, 2025, and titled “Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure” (E.O. 14318). E.O. 14318 directs federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to explore and drive opportunities to reduce regulatory permitting and other hurdles for data centers and their component supply chains. E.O. 14318 applies to “Qualifying Projects,” which include certain large scale or nationally strategic “Data Center Projects” or “Covered Component Projects,” encapsulating much of the parts and supply chain and energy needs for large data centers.
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