Earlier this week, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order to develop AI infrastructure with major implications for data centres and computing power. This comes a day after the UK government set out its AI Action Plan to accelerate AI deployments across its departments.
Biden’s order supports the development of the US’s artificial intelligence infrastructure and meet the energy requirements from AI data centres in the years ahead. The UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan is a roadmap for government to capture the opportunities of AI.
“Hot on the heels of the UK’s announcement to turbocharge its economy with AI, President Biden has signed an executive order aimed at accelerating the development of AI-ready infrastructure in the US,” said DE-CIX CEO Ivo Ivanov. “This will include the establishment of state-of-the-art AI data centres and clean power facilities, addressing the rising demand for sustainable and scalable computing power.”
“While AI technologies continue to evolve at pace, concerns over whether we have the network infrastructure in place to support and sustain it have gotten louder,” he added. “This move by the Biden administration is, in part, a direct response to those concerns.”
“AI primarily operates in one of two ways: inference, where models deliver real-time predictions and responses, and training, where models learn tasks by processing vast amounts of data,” Ivanov said. “Both methods demand significant bandwidth and low latency, achievable only with a carefully balanced combination of state-of-the-art data centres, network infrastructure, and high-performance internet and cloud exchanges.”
“Edge computing and an increasing number of geographically distributed and interconnected data centres will be needed to do justice to AI’s potential and revolutionise the economy. America’s move to develop this ecosystem in a way that is energy-conscious and sustainable will be an important milestone on the road to achieving next-generation, AI-ready connectivity.”
