Technology and cybersecurity

Executive Order 14141: Advancing United States Leadership in Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure

President: Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Directed agencies to identify federal sites and streamline leasing, energy, permitting and security arrangements for large AI data centers and clean-power infrastructure.

Status: Revoked.

Is Executive Order 14141 still in effect? No. Revoked July 23, 2025; replaced by a new data-center policy.

What does Executive Order 14141 do?

Defense and Energy were to identify federal sites for competitive leasing while permitting agencies conducted their own reviews.

Later primary evidence reviewed September 24, 2026: EO 14318 expressly revoked this order. Official source. The cited steps do not establish every downstream effect.

Administration position: The order’s findings and policy rationale were the Biden administration’s positions. This guide distinguishes them from implementation records and judicial rulings.
SignedJanuary 14, 2025
Lead officialsDefense, Energy, Interior, Commerce, EPA, State and White House offices
Express timingMultiple 30- to 180-day site, permitting and international plans

Before and after

Before the order

Data-center development proceeded through ordinary land, power, permitting and procurement processes without this government-wide siting program.

After the order

Agencies began site and planning work. A July 2025 order established a different data-center initiative and expressly revoked EO 14141.

EO 14318 expressly revoked this order.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Defense and EnergyIdentify and competitively lease suitable federal sitesStaged deadlines
Permitting agenciesCoordinate environmental and infrastructure reviewsOngoing
State and other agenciesDevelop allied-infrastructure plan90 days

What happened next

EO 14141 signed.

Order signed.

Successor data-center order revoked EO 14141.

Later primary evidence reviewed: EO 14318 expressly revoked this order.