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Section 4(a) of Executive Order 14299 of 23 May 2025 directed the Secretary of Energy to initiate the process for designating AI data centres within the 48 contiguous States and the District of Columbia that are located at or operated in coordination with DOE facilities as critical defense facilities, “where appropriate”, and stated that the electrical infrastructure needed to operate them shall be considered defense critical electric infrastructure, “as appropriate and consistent with applicable law”. Copy claim link
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Provision Required action · provision ID us-eo14299-sec4a Subject version As published in the Federal Register (29 May 2025) · Published 2025-05-29 · Effective date not established Date 2025-05-29 · publication Scope and limits A direction to begin a process, with three limits the section states: the geographic limit (the 48 contiguous States and the District of Columbia), “where appropriate” for the designation, and “as appropriate and consistent with applicable law” for the treatment of the electrical infrastructure. No designation is recorded here (cross-family check, item 49).
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Executive Order 14299: Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security (90 FR 22581) ↗ Federal Register (Office of the Federal Register, National Archives) via govinfo.gov · 2025-05-29
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Source excerpt “initiate the process for designating AI data centers within the 48 contiguous States and the District of Columbia, in whole or in part, that are located at or operated in coordination with Department of Energy facilities” Location in source Sec. 4(a), 90 FR 22582
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Source details and check notes Authors The White House Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 22ddba09a2e933ddc8cf0c82c11641358f620da7566bc693aac46e6a6434a4b7). Federal Register print of 29 May 2025, Vol. 90, No. 102, pp. 22581 ff., FR Doc. 2025-09796. The PDF text layer scatters the title words. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 22ddba09a2e933ddc8cf0c82c11641358f620da7566bc693aac46e6a6434a4b7, the same bytes). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution The White House, “Executive Order 14299: Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security (90 FR 22581)”, 2025-05-29. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (36 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 49) re-read the record’s sources and found partial support; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Executive Order 14299: Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security (90 FR 22581) ↗ Federal Register (Office of the Federal Register, National Archives) via govinfo.gov · 2025-05-29
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Source excerpt “shall be considered defense critical electric infrastructure” Location in source Sec. 4(a), 90 FR 22582
How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher
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Source details and check notes Authors The White House Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 22ddba09a2e933ddc8cf0c82c11641358f620da7566bc693aac46e6a6434a4b7). Federal Register print of 29 May 2025, Vol. 90, No. 102, pp. 22581 ff., FR Doc. 2025-09796. The PDF text layer scatters the title words. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 22ddba09a2e933ddc8cf0c82c11641358f620da7566bc693aac46e6a6434a4b7, the same bytes). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution The White House, “Executive Order 14299: Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security (90 FR 22581)”, 2025-05-29. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (7 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 49) re-read the record’s sources and found partial support; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Executive Order 14299: Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security (90 FR 22581) ↗ Federal Register (Office of the Federal Register, National Archives) via govinfo.gov · 2025-05-29
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Source excerpt “as critical defense facilities, where appropriate” Location in source Sec. 4(a), 90 FR 22582
How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher
Machine-checked · 2026-10-30
Source details and check notes Authors The White House Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 22ddba09a2e933ddc8cf0c82c11641358f620da7566bc693aac46e6a6434a4b7). Federal Register print of 29 May 2025, Vol. 90, No. 102, pp. 22581 ff., FR Doc. 2025-09796. The PDF text layer scatters the title words. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 22ddba09a2e933ddc8cf0c82c11641358f620da7566bc693aac46e6a6434a4b7, the same bytes). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution The White House, “Executive Order 14299: Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security (90 FR 22581)”, 2025-05-29. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Added at the admission of the compute, power and orbit pack (research/compute-power-orbit). The limit of the designation that the section states (cross-family check, item 49). The quotation (6 words) matched a direct retrieval of 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 22ddba09a2e933ddc8cf0c82c11641358f620da7566bc693aac46e6a6434a4b7). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Executive Order 14299: Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security (90 FR 22581) ↗ Federal Register (Office of the Federal Register, National Archives) via govinfo.gov · 2025-05-29
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Source excerpt “as appropriate and consistent with applicable law” Location in source Sec. 4(a), 90 FR 22582
How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher
Machine-checked · 2026-10-30
Source details and check notes Authors The White House Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 22ddba09a2e933ddc8cf0c82c11641358f620da7566bc693aac46e6a6434a4b7). Federal Register print of 29 May 2025, Vol. 90, No. 102, pp. 22581 ff., FR Doc. 2025-09796. The PDF text layer scatters the title words. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 22ddba09a2e933ddc8cf0c82c11641358f620da7566bc693aac46e6a6434a4b7, the same bytes). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution The White House, “Executive Order 14299: Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security (90 FR 22581)”, 2025-05-29. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Added at the admission of the compute, power and orbit pack (research/compute-power-orbit). The applicable-law limit that the section states for the treatment of the electrical infrastructure (cross-family check, item 49). The quotation (7 words) matched a direct retrieval of 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 22ddba09a2e933ddc8cf0c82c11641358f620da7566bc693aac46e6a6434a4b7). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Provision as the text states it, dated by its date of publication, 2025-05-29. Signed on 23 May 2025; published in the Federal Register of 29 May 2025.
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