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Defense Production Act of 1950

A law that grants the President broad authority to direct industries to prioritize national defense needs, such as manufacturing critical goods or materials.

Critical Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure

Specific facilities considered essential for AI development, including large data centers, the power plants (often non-renewable) that supply them, their connecting power lines, and the fuel systems for those power plants.

Federal Authorization

Any permit, license, approval, or other official administrative decision required from the federal government to build, expand, operate, or maintain a project.

Concurrent Permitting

A process where multiple federal agencies review and process their required permits and approvals for a project at the same time, rather than one after another, to speed up the overall timeline.

Dispatchable Baseload Electric Generation Facility

A power plant that can reliably produce a consistent, large amount of electricity 24/7, on demand, and typically does not rely on intermittent energy sources like wind or solar power (e.g., coal, natural gas, nuclear plants).

Inference of Artificial Intelligence

The process where a trained AI model uses new data to make predictions or decisions, such as identifying objects in an image or understanding speech.