The White House on Wednesday released "Winning the AI Race: America's AI Action Plan," a comprehensive strategy document outlining over 90 federal policy actions designed to cement U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence. The plan identifies policy actions across three pillars – Accelerating Innovation, Building American AI Infrastructure, and Leading in International Diplomacy and Security – that the Trump Administration will take in the coming weeks and months.
The announcement, made during an AI summit in Washington attended by industry leaders including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su, represents a significant departure from the previous administration's approach. The plan includes three pillars: accelerating innovation, building out AI infrastructure in the United States and making American hardware and software the "standard" platform for AI innovations built around the world.
A key infrastructure component involves expediting construction permits for large-scale data centers and power plants to support AI workloads. The administration aims to address the computational demands of training and deploying large language models, which require substantial electricity and cooling infrastructure. That includes expediting the construction of large-scale data centers, which house servers, networking gear and other technology used to power artificial intelligence.
In a move targeting federal procurement, the plan also recommends that large language models procured by the federal government are "objective and free from top-down ideological bias". This requirement could affect major AI vendors seeking government contracts, though technical implementation details remain unclear.
The strategy also emphasises international technology exports. The Commerce and State Departments will partner with industry to deliver secure, full-stack AI export packages – including hardware, models, software, applications, and standards – to America's friends and allies around the world.
David Sacks, the White House AI and Crypto Czar, indicated the plan aims to establish federal preemption over state-level AI regulations. The plan also recommends that the federal government "consider a state's AI regulatory climate" when considering how to distribute federal funding for AI-related programs.
The administration plans to execute all outlined policies within six months to a year, according to White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios. The initiative follows President Trump's January executive order removing AI guardrails implemented under the previous administration.