(Reuters) – The Trump administration has released a new artificial intelligence blueprint aimed at loosening environmental rules and significantly expanding AI exports to allies.
President Donald Trump marked the release of the plan, where he laid out the stakes for a technological weapons race with China, calling it the battle that defines the 21st century.
“America is the country that started the AI race, and as the US president, I am here today to declare that America will win it,” Trump said.
The plan, which includes around 90 recommendations, calls for international exports of US AI software and hardware and crackdowns on state laws that are deemed too restrictive to thrive.
“We also have to have a single federal standard, not 50 different states that will regulate this industry in the future,” Trump said.
Michael Krazios, head of the Department of Science and Technology Policy Office, told reporters Wednesday that the Commerce Department and the state will partner with the industry to “provide a secure full-stack AI export package that includes hardware models, software applications and standards for American friends and allies.”
The expansion of the full suite of AI products exports could benefit the parent meta of AI chip Juggernaut Nvidia and AMD, as well as AI model giant Alphabet's Google, Microsoft, Openai and Facebook.
Trump signed three executive orders on Wednesday that incorporate elements of the action plan, calling for ease of environmental rules, establishment of rules for chip exports and limiting political bias in AI technology.
Biden feared that US enemies like China would use AI chips produced by companies such as Nvidia and AMD to charge their troops and harm their allies. The former president, who took office in January, imposed numerous restrictions on exports to China on the US exports of AI chips.
Trump has rescinded Biden's executive order aimed at promoting competition, protecting consumers and ensuring that AI is not used for misinformation. He also retracted Biden's so-called AI spreading rules. This has limited the amount of American AI computing capabilities that some countries have been allowed to acquire via imports of US AI chips.
“Our Edge (AI) is not something we can remain in glory,” Vice President JD Vance said in another appearance at an event organized by White House AI, Crypto Czar David Sacks and his co-hosts on the “All-in” podcast.
“If we are going to die ourselves and allow the Chinese to catch up with us, that's not something… we should blame the Chinese… that is something that we should blame our own leaders for having stupid policies that allow us to catch up with the rest of the nations,” Vance said.
The AI plan is designed to walk to the previous line of restrictions on China's AI chip access, not addressing national security concerns about NVIDIA's H20 chips that bolster the AI model, according to senior management.
Trump blocked H20 exports to China in April, but the company allowed it to resume sales earlier this month, sparking rare criticism from Republicans.
Fast Tracking Data Center
The plan also requires rapid tracking of data center construction by loosening environmental regulations and promoting the development of projects that include power sources using federal land.
The administration seeks to establish new exclusions for data centers under the National Environmental Policy Act, and streamlines permits under the Clean Water Act.
Trump in January directed his administration to develop a plan.
Trump is expected to take additional steps in the coming weeks that will help Big Tech secure the enormous amount of electricity needed to bolster the energy-induced data centers needed for the rapid expansion of AI, Reuters previously reported.
U.S. electricity demand has hit record highs this year after nearly 20 years of stagnation, as AI and cloud computing data centers focus on balloons of numbers and sizes across the country.
The export expansion plan takes pages from transactions announced in May. This has expanded access to advanced artificial intelligence chips from the United States after the United States faced previous restrictions on Washington's concerns that China has access to technology.
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