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Executive Order 14318: Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure

Directs the Secretary of Commerce to launch an initiative to provide financial support for qualifying data center projects and the components they depend on, where a data center project is a facility requiring more than 100 megawatts of new load dedicated to AI inference, training, simulation, or synthetic data generation.1

Signed · President of the United States (Donald J. Trump) · In effect

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  • It directs agencies to identify existing, and establish new, categorical exclusions under the National Environmental Policy Act for such projects, sets out other measures to expedite environmental reviews and permitting, and directs agencies to offer sites on Federal lands and military installations for them.
  • It revokes Executive Order 14141.1

Status: In effect

The Federal Register's executive order notes for this order, retrieved on 2026-10-08, list no revoking or amending order.2

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Sources

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  1. 1.
    Executive Order 14318: Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure (90 FR 35385, July 28, 2025) (external site: govinfo.gov)

    Office of the Federal Register, via govinfo (U.S. Government Publishing Office) · Official page · published Jul 28, 2025 · accessed Oct 8, 2026

  2. 2.
    Federal Register document record 2025-14212 (Executive Order 14318), with executive order notes (external site: federalregister.gov)

    Office of the Federal Register (National Archives and Records Administration) · Other · published Jul 28, 2025 · accessed Oct 8, 2026

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