2 weeks Ago By Naveen Athrappully
President Donald Trump issued a memorandum to expeditiously conduct environmental reviews and evaluate permits for leveraging modern technology and fast-tracking related projects in the country. The statement said inefficient review processes that don’t leverage available technology currently pose a “significant delay” and adverse financial impacts to projects. Trump ordered for digitizing the application and review process, accelerating processing times in a way that does not impact review quality, reduction of documentation lengths, and improved interagency coordination and transparency, among other measures.
The president also called for establishing an interagency Permitting Innovation Center to facilitate broader adoption of coordinated tech applications. Trump has given the chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), along with relevant agencies, 45 days to issue a Permitting Technology Action Plan for modernizing federal permitting processes in regards to infrastructure projects. “Tens of ‘gigawatt AI factories’ are expected to be built in the coming years,” the company said, adding that the venture is expected to create hundreds of thousands of jobs and drive trillions of dollars in economic security over the coming decades.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said, “The engines of the world’s AI infrastructure are being built in the United States for the first time.” Nvidia’s announcement provided an encouraging boost to the Trump administration, which had come under fire for market losses incurred in the ongoing tariff negotiation with countries around the world. “We wanted to uncomplicate it,” he said.
“Because we want to make our chips and semiconductors and other things in our country.” Semiconductor products will be categorized under a different tariff “bucket.” Investments in manufacturing typically depend on facilities offered by government authorities.
In his executive order, Trump said that “all agencies must prioritize efficiency and certainty over any other objectives, including those of activist groups, that do not align with the policy goals ...
that could otherwise add delays and ambiguity to the permitting process.”.
