A number of the executive orders and announcements coming from the White House since Donald Trump returned to office have painted an ambitious vision for America’s AI future—crushing competition with China, abolishing “woke” AI models that suppress conservative speech, jump-starting power-hungry AI data centers. But the details have been sparse.

When President Donald Trump rolled out a plan to boost artificial intelligence and data centers, a key goal was wiping away barriers to rapid growth.

On July 23, 2025, the Trump Administration published an AI Action Plan and three Executive Orders on AI. The AI Action Plan sets forth a series of policy goals for execution by the federal government with respect to AI.