Trump Administration Releases AI Action Plan Accelerating Infrastructure, Regulatory Reform

In 2025, President Trump unveiled the AI Action Plan, a comprehensive strategy aimed at accelerating American leadership in artificial intelligence through deregulation, infrastructure expansion, and international diplomacy. The plan emphasizes streamlining federal permitting processes for data centers and semiconductor fabs by revising regulations under environmental laws and making federal lands available for development. It also directs federal agencies to procure AI models that are ideologically neutral and promotes exporting a fully American AI technology stack. The administration seeks to reduce regulatory barriers by instructing agencies like the FTC to modify or drop enforcement actions that could hinder AI innovation and conditions federal funding on states' regulatory friendliness towards AI research. While maintaining continuity with some previous policies, the plan adopts a more permissive stance to foster AI development, encouraging private sector engagement in areas such as government contracting, energy policy, and regulatory reform. This approach reflects a broader political strategy to support Silicon Valley allies through minimal regulation in exchange for industry backing.