When the president imposes retaliatory tariffs, companies like Nvidia have pledged manufacturing hubs in the country.
President Donald Trump has issued a memorandum of understanding assessing permission to speed up environmental reviews and leverage the latest technology and fast-relevant related projects in the country.
The statement said that an inefficient review process that does not utilize the available technology is currently causing “significant delays” and adverse financial impacts on the project.
Trump ordered the digitalization of the application and review process, and ordered processing times to be accelerated in a way that does not affect review quality, document length reductions, and improved inter-ministerial coordination and transparency.
The President also called for an inter-ministerial establishment that allows innovation centres to be granted to promote wider adoption of coordinated technology applications.
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Trump, along with agencies associated with the Environmental Quality Council (CEQ) chair, has given him 45 days to issue a permitting technical action plan to modernize the federal permitting process for infrastructure projects.
AI made in the USA
On April 14, California-based Nvidia said in a statement that it “has commissioned more than 1 million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test the Nvidia Blackwell chips, an AI supercomputer in Arizona and Texas.”
“Dozens of ‘Gigawatt AI plants’ 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 first time the world’s AI infrastructure engine is being built in the US.”
Nvidia’s announcement provided an encouragemental boost to the Trump administration, who was fired for market losses that occurred in continuing tariff negotiations with countries around the world.
“We didn’t want to synthesize it,” he said. “We want to make chips, semiconductors, etc. in our country.”
Semiconductor products are classified under different tariffs “buckets”.
Investments in manufacturing usually depend on facilities provided by government authorities.
“All agencies must prioritize efficiency and certainty over other goals, including activist groups that do not align with policy goals… otherwise they could add delays and ambiguity to the permitting process.”
